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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Doug Cameron voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% 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 very strongly 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
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- 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
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Offshore oil mining
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- 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
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Refugee family reunification
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Political interference in research funding
- 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 restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Prioritising religious freedom
- 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 very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- 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
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex 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 scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- 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')
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing funding for public schools
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
Please note that our voting records start in 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 15 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Doug Cameron voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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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
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Mark Furner | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |