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25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Don Farrell
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 65% attendance explain attendance
Don Farrell is Minister for Trade and Tourism, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and Special Minister of State. Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for SA, Don Farrell was Australian Labor Party Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- 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)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted almost always for
- A carbon price
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted generally against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Nuclear energy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted consistently against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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')
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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 federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Pill testing
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Don Farrell has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Don Farrell has taken part in 18 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Don Farrell 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 - Introduce threshold
Don Farrell voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell 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
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Don Farrell was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Compare Don Farrell with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Don Farrell (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% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |