edited
11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Tony Sheldon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Tony Sheldon
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- 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
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted generally 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
- Increasing marine conservation
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
-
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Tony Sheldon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Tony Sheldon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Tony Sheldon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Tony Sheldon voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Tony Sheldon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
-
edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Tony Sheldon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Tony Sheldon voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Tony Sheldon voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
-
edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Tony Sheldon was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Tony Sheldon with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tony Sheldon (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% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Alex Gallacher | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |