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4th Jul 2024
Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024 and two others - Second Reading - Criticism of bills
Bill Shorten voted No
Ted O'Brien voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Bill Shorten and Ted O'Brien have voted the same way 1% of the time
Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
Ted O'Brien
Liberal Party Representative for Fairfax since July 2016
Since July 2016 Bill Shorten and Ted O'Brien have voted in the same division 1123 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1108 times. They have only voted the same 15 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
Always voted differently on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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)
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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 tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1108 times. They have only voted the same 15 times.
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 3rd Jul 2024
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Bill Shorten voted No
Ted O'Brien voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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Bills — Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Third Reading
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 7th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Increase speaking time for first Opposition speaker
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2023
Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - No price freeze
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Public Sector Superannuation Salary Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien 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
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Ted O'Brien voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance