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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Don Farrell
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
Don Farrell is Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations (Senate), Shadow Minister for the Arts (Senate), Shadow Minister for Small and Family Business (Senate), Shadow Minister Assisting for Small and Family Business (Senate), Shadow Minister for Tourism, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Special Minister of State, and Shadow Minister for Sport. Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for SA, Don Farrell was Australian Labor Party Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted strongly for
- A carbon price
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted moderately for
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Legalising euthanasia
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Public transport
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Has never voted on
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Don Farrell has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Free votes
Don Farrell has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Don Farrell voted No 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
Don Farrell voted No 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
Don Farrell voted No 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
Don Farrell voted No 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
Don Farrell voted No 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
Don Farrell voted Yes 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
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Extension of Coronavirus Support) Bill 2020 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Do not insist on amendments
Don Farrell was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 15 days ago
Motions - Workplace Safety - Industrial manslaughter
Don Farrell was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 15 days ago
Documents - Climate Ambition Summit - Order for the Production of Documents
Don Farrell was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | Gavin Marshall | Victoria | whilst Deputy President |
| 94% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Murray Watt | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |