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4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Matt O'Sullivan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 93% attendance
Matt O'Sullivan
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2019
Rebels 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted generally against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Transgender rights
Voted consistently against
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Capping gas prices
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Matt O'Sullivan has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
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Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Matt O'Sullivan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - in Committee - Agree with the bill
Matt O'Sullivan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance
Free votes
Matt O'Sullivan has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Matt O'Sullivan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Matt O'Sullivan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Matt O'Sullivan was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Matt O'Sullivan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Matt O'Sullivan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Matt O'Sullivan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Matt O'Sullivan (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% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | James McGrath | Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Jacinta Nampijinpa Price | Country Liberal Party Senator for NT |