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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 73% attendance explain attendance
Don Farrell is Shadow Attorney-General (Senate), Shadow Minister for National Security (Senate), Shadow Minister for Justice (Senate), Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Special Minister of State, Shadow Minister for Sport, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Senate), Shadow Minister for Defence Personnel (Senate), and Shadow Minister for Finance (Senate). 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 minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- 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 funding for legal aid
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted moderately for
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- 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
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- 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
- 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 funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- 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
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- 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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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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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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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018; in Committee
Don Farrell voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Don Farrell voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Don Farrell voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% 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% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Chris Ketter | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |