edited
5th Oct 2018
Motions - Confucius Institute - Foreign influence
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 72% attendance
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Rebelled 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 79% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Senate electoral reform
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Barry O'Sullivan has voted against the majority of their party once since entering Parliament in February 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
Barry O'Sullivan has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in February 2014. 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted No 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted No 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted No 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted No 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% 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
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
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
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Barry O'Sullivan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Barry O'Sullivan (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Christopher Back | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Ron Boswell | Former National Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Sue Boyce | Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Alan Eggleston | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |