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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Deborah O'Neill
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since November 2013
Never rebels explain rebellions 79% 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 consistently for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- 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 independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- 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 competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Offshore oil mining
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- 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 fishing restrictions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted almost always against
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- 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 the cost of humanities degrees
- 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')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Investing in climate science
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Universal access to abortion services
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 15 free votes since entering Parliament in August 2010. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Deborah O'Neill voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 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
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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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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Pensioner concession cards
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Suspension of benefits & entitlements
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Put the question
Deborah O'Neill voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% 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
Compare Deborah O'Neill with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Deborah O'Neill (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |
| 100% | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |