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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 80% 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- 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
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- 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 competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- 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 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Uranium export
Voted almost always for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- 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
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Offshore oil mining
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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
- Building community climate change resilience
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Universal access to abortion services
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
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- 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 funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- 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)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted generally against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Australia's timber industry
- 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
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- 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 whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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 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 independent NDIS assessment process
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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 euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain 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 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
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Deborah O'Neill voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Deborah O'Neill was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Deborah O'Neill was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 99% | Joe Bullock | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Chris Ketter | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Alex Gallacher | Australian Labor Party |