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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Deborah O'Neill
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since November 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW, Deborah O'Neill was Australian Labor Party Representative for Robertson.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore oil mining
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Live animal export
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Refugee family reunification
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- Australia's timber industry
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Senate electoral reform
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Deborah O'Neill has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain rebellions
Free votes
Deborah O'Neill has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 13 days ago
Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Dairy Cattle Export Charge) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Deborah O'Neill was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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edited 13 days ago
Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Dairy Cattle Export Charge) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Against live export
Deborah O'Neill was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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edited 13 days ago
Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2020 - in Committee - PJCIS oversight
Deborah O'Neill was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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edited 28th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
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| 99% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Chris Ketter | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |