edited
26 days ago
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Defence appointed celebrants
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 98% attendance
Brendan O'Connor
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton since October 2004
Never rebels explain rebellions 93% attendance explain attendance
Brendan O'Connor is Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton, Brendan O'Connor was Australian Labor Party Representative for Burke.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly for
Something not right?Voted moderately for
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing funding for university education
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
Voted very strongly against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Live animal export
- Privatising government assets
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending illegal logging
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Brendan O'Connor has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Brendan O'Connor has taken part in 9 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 26 days ago
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 26 days ago
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018; Consideration in Detail
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 11 days ago
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 2nd Mar 2018
Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 1) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Clamp down on phoenix activity
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
No votes listed as Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Burke
View all votesPossible Friends
Shows which Representatives voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Representatives attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Representatives that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Ged Kearney | Batman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Geoff Lyons | Bass | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Brett Raguse | Forde | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Jon Sullivan | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Laura Smyth | La Trobe | Australian Labor Party |