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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Simon Birmingham and Barry O'Sullivan have voted the same way 98% of the time
Simon Birmingham
Liberal Party Senator for SA since May 2007
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Between February 2014 and July 2019 Simon Birmingham and Barry O'Sullivan have voted in the same division 971 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 952 times. They have only voted differently 19 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
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- 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 banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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 initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- 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 a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 952 times. They have only voted differently 19 times.
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edited 23rd Nov 2018
Motions - Banking and Financial Services - Reduce conflicts of interest
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2019
Committees - Environment and Communications References Committee - Refer to Committee (ABC + political interference)
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Barry O'Sullivan voted No, rebelling against the National Party
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 24th Aug 2018
Motions - Free Speech - Against gender neutral language
Simon Birmingham voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
3 rebellions 59% attendance
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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
Simon Birmingham voted Yes in this free vote
Barry O'Sullivan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 13th Jul 2018
Motions - Freedom of Speech - Exclusion zone around abortion clinics
Simon Birmingham voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Simon Birmingham voted Yes in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted Yes in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted Yes in this free vote
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
Simon Birmingham voted No in this free vote
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 3rd Dec 2017
Motions - Abortion - Gender grounds
Simon Birmingham voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance