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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 88% attendance explain attendance
Deborah O'Neill is Shadow Minister for Financial Services (Senate), Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs (Senate), Shadow Minister Assisting for Small Business (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Innovation, Shadow Minister for Communications (Senate), Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health (Mental Health), and Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health. 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
- Ending illegal logging
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- 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
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
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Live animal export
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Refugee family reunification
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- 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
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- 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 Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising euthanasia
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
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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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018; in Committee
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Chris Ketter | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |