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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes in this free vote
Tony Burke voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Brendan O'Connor and Tony Burke have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Brendan O'Connor
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton since October 2004
Tony Burke
Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson since October 2004
Since February 2006 (when our voting records begin) Brendan O'Connor and Tony Burke have voted in the same division 2686 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 2681 times. They have only voted differently 5 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.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way 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 plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- 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 the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- 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
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 2681 times. They have only voted differently 5 times.
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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
Tony Burke voted No 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
Tony Burke voted Yes 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
Tony Burke voted No 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
Tony Burke voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance