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Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Tony Sheldon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Tony Sheldon
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- 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
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- 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 workplace protections
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- 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
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- 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
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Ending illegal logging
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- 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
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- 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 8 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Matters of Urgency — Immigration Detention
Tony Sheldon voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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Documents — Department of Home Affairs; Order for the Production of Documents
Tony Sheldon voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Second Reading
Tony Sheldon voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% 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% | Fatima Payman | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Jana Stewart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |