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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 69% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Australia's timber industry
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted moderately for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- 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 protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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 (known as cashless debit cards)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Tony Sheldon was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Tony Sheldon was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Tony Sheldon was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% 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 |
| 97% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |