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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Deborah O'Neill
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since November 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 78% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW, Deborah O'Neill was Australian Labor Party Representative for Robertson.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending illegal logging
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Refugee family reunification
- Self-governance of the territories
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
Voted almost always against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Investing in climate science
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Universal access to abortion services
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Deborah O'Neill has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Deborah O'Neill has taken part in 16 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 28th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Compare Deborah O'Neill with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Deborah O'Neill (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |