Motions — Israel
Jason Wood voted No
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Jason Wood and Brendan O'Connor have voted the same way 1% of the time
Jason Wood
Liberal Party Representative for La Trobe since September 2013
Brendan O'Connor
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gorton since October 2004
Since February 2006 (when our voting records begin) Jason Wood and Brendan O'Connor have voted in the same division 1797 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1774 times. They have only voted the same 23 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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- 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 pay secrecy clauses
- 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
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- 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
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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 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
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1774 times. They have only voted the same 23 times.
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edited 6th Sep 2023
Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports Amendment (Animal Welfare) Bill 2023 - Report from Federation Chamber - Live export bans
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 29% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets needed
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - On new fossil fuel projects
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 87% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes in this free vote
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor 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
Jason Wood voted Yes
Brendan O'Connor voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% 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
Jason Wood voted No
Brendan O'Connor 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
Jason Wood voted No
Brendan O'Connor 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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
Brendan O'Connor 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
Jason Wood voted No
Brendan O'Connor voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% 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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
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
Jason Wood voted Yes in this free vote
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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
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
Jason Wood voted Yes in this free vote
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
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
Brendan O'Connor voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance