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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
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- 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
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- 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 children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing waste in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
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 transparency of big business by making information public
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Unconventional gas mining
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 the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
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 protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- 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
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
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
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- 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
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- 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 courts
- 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
- Temporary protection visas
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
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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edited 13th Oct 2024
Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2024 and another - Third Reading - Agree with the remaining stages
Raff Ciccone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 54% attendance
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edited 28 days ago
Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2024 and another - Committee of the Whole - Objects and Register of Nuclear Power Safety
Raff Ciccone voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 50% attendance
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edited 28 days ago
Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2024 and another - Committee of the Whole - Operation of State and Territory laws
Raff Ciccone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 54% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean |