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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Doug Cameron voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Doug Cameron
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- 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-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted almost always against
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted consistently against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- 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
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- 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
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- 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
- Senate electoral reform
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Doug Cameron has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Doug Cameron has taken part in 14 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Doug Cameron voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron 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
Doug Cameron voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Doug Cameron voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Doug Cameron voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Doug Cameron was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Doug Cameron was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Doug Cameron was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Doug Cameron with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Doug Cameron (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% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Sue Lines | President Senator for WA |