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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Matt O'Sullivan voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Matt O'Sullivan
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government services
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Removing children from immigration detention
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted very strongly against
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Matt O'Sullivan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Matt O'Sullivan has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response — Better Advice) Bill 2021; Second Reading
Matt O'Sullivan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Bills — Customs Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2021, Customs Tariff Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership...
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Documents — Climate Change; Order for the Production of Documents
Matt O'Sullivan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 98% | Ben Small | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Dean Smith | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | National Party |
| 98% | Amanda Stoker | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Gerard Rennick | Liberal Party |