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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 69% attendance explain attendance
Don Farrell is Shadow Minister for Sport and Tourism, Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations (Senate), Shadow Minister for the Arts (Senate), Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Special Minister of State. Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for SA, Don Farrell was Australian Labor Party Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- 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
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Privatising government assets
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted almost always for
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- 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 Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 the Youth Allowance rate
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted generally against
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Voted consistently 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 independent NDIS assessment process
- 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
- 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 childcare
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- 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)
- 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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edited 24th Dec 2017
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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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Don Farrell voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Don Farrell was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Don Farrell was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 99% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Gavin Marshall | whilst Deputy President |
| 94% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Jess Walsh | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party |