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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Raff Ciccone
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since March 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 74% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing workplace protections
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Raff Ciccone has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Raff Ciccone has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Raff Ciccone voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Raff Ciccone voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Raff Ciccone voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Raff Ciccone voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Raff Ciccone voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Documents — Treasury; Order for the Production of Documents
Raff Ciccone was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Raff Ciccone was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Raff Ciccone was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Compare Raff Ciccone with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Raff Ciccone (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
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| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean |
| 100% | Jana Stewart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Doug Cameron | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |