edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Tony Sheldon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Tony Sheldon
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing personal income tax
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately for
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting whistleblowers
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
Has never voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing political transparency
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Tony Sheldon has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tony Sheldon has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Tony Sheldon voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Tony Sheldon voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Tony Sheldon was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |