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18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Christian Porter voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
Brendan O'Connor and Christian Porter have voted the same way 1% of the time
Brendan O'Connor
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton since October 2004
Christian Porter
Former Liberal Party Representative for Pearce September 2013 – May 2022
Between September 2013 and May 2022 Brendan O'Connor and Christian Porter have voted in the same division 1317 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1307 times. They have only voted the same 10 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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 the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1307 times. They have only voted the same 10 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Christian Porter voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Christian Porter voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes in this free vote
Christian Porter voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 3rd Jun 2021
Motions - Department of Defence - Don't let a vote happen
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Christian Porter voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 31st Jul 2020
Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019 - Consideration in Detail - ISDS clauses
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Christian Porter voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 18th Oct 2019
Motions - Casinos - Suspend the usual rules
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Christian Porter voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
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
Christian Porter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Christian Porter voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Christian Porter voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance