edited
26th May 2023
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Character test
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Barry O'Sullivan and Cory Bernardi have voted the same way 91% of the time
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Cory Bernardi
Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA February 2017 – January 2020
Between February 2014 and July 2019 Barry O'Sullivan and Cory Bernardi have voted in the same division 950 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 864 times. They have only voted differently 86 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 864 times. They have only voted differently 86 times.
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Recovering legal aid
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Limiting access to Legal Aid
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Motions - Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination - Voluntary buybacks
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
-
edited 10th Jan 2019
Documents - Gretals Australia Pty Ltd - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 10th Jan 2019
Documents - Centrelink - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 18th Jan 2019
Documents - Australian and Children's Screen Content Review - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 18th Jan 2019
Documents - Australian Research Council - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2018
Motions - My Health Record - Extend opt-out period
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2018
Motions - Political Donations - Increase disclosure requirements
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Fuel - Remove fuel excise
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2019
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee - Refer to Committee (visa status of au pairs)
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4th Oct 2018
Motions - Home Care Packages - Deliver on reforms
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 8th Feb 2019
Documents - Future Submarine Project - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Documents - Department of Human Services - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Aug 2018
Motions - Donations to Political Parties - Disclosure
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Documents - Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Aug 2018
Motions - Digital Encryption - Warrant and privacy
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2023
Budget - Consideration by Estimates Committees - Provide information
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Participation
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2018 and another - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill 2017 and another - First Reading - Consider bills together
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 27th Jul 2018
Water Amendment Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Water Amendment Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1)
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 13th Jul 2018
Motions - Goods and Services Tax - Northern Territory productivity
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 12th Oct 2018
Motions - Minister Representing the Minister for Aged Care - Home care packages
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and two others - Reference to Committee - For inquiry
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 30th May 2018
Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Ideology
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 27th Jul 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1) - Disallow
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 6th Apr 2018
Motions - Productivity Commission Report - GST distribution (Tas & SA)
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 4th May 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 28th Jul 2023
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Review
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 6th Oct 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First — Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Keep parts unchanged
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 6th Oct 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First — Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Keep parts unchanged
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2017
Motions - Taxation - Automotive Industry
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
-
edited 8th Dec 2017
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Water and Agriculture Portfolios
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 71% attendance
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edited 26th Oct 2017
Motions - United Nations Human Rights Council - Re-focus
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2017
Motions - Higher Education: Australian History - Review curriculum
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
-
edited 27th Oct 2017
Motions - United Nations: Membership - UNESCO & anti-Israeli bias
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Disclosure of interests
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Location of corporation
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Eligibility criteria for loans & financial assistance
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 20th Jan 2018
Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017 - in Committee - Ministerial discretions & rules
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 81% attendance
-
edited 27th Oct 2017
Motions - Higher Education - Student Services and Amenities Fee
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
-
edited 10th Oct 2023
Notices - Postponement - UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 15th Feb 2018
Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Amendments
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2018
Motions - Renewable Energy - Against target and subsidies
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Defence Procurement - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2023
Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017 and three others - in Committee - Motor vehicles
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2023
Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017 and three others - in Committee - Don't consider climate change
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Three bills
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Competition and Consumer Amendment (Abolition of Limited Merits Review) Bill 2017
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment (Make Electricity Gst Free) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2017
Motions - Parliamentary Representation - Qualifications of Senators
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 21st Aug 2017
Motions - Wong, Senator Penny; Censure - Let a vote happen
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
-
edited 17th Nov 2017
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee - Reference
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
-
edited 13th Aug 2017
Motions - National Security - Consistency in airport mandatory screening
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Committees - Murray-Darling Basin - Independent national judicial inquiry
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Limiting commitments
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
-
edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Transition period
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 9th Mar 2018
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
Business — Rearrangement
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2017
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
Business — Rearrangement
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
Business — Rearrangement
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
edited 9th Jul 2017
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Criminalise "revenge porn"
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 6th Jul 2017
Motions - Interference by Foreign Powers - Reference to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
-
edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Influence of Foreign Agents - Royal Commission
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
-
edited 13th May 2017
Motions - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Reduce funding
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 7th Apr 2017
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Change 18C wording
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Saudi Arabia - Order for the Production of Documents
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016; in Committee
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
-
edited 14th Apr 2017
Motions - Child Sexual Abuse - List of perpetrators
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 6th Apr 2017
Motions - Parliamentarians' Entitlements - Do not increase remuneration until in surplus
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Gold Pass travel entitlement
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Prime ministers
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 61% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Former PMs and the gold pass
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Get rid of gold pass
Barry O'Sullivan voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 61% attendance