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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
Raff Ciccone
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since March 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 70% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- 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
- 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 legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing personal income tax
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted generally against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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 7 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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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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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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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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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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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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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 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Raff Ciccone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Raff Ciccone voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Raff Ciccone was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% 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% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Kristina Keneally | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |