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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Matt O'Sullivan
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Lowering taxes for middle- and high-income earners
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Voted consistently against
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Capping gas prices
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- 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
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan 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
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 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
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 19 days ago
Matters of Urgency - Budget - Criticism
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Documents - Budget Process Operational Rules - Order for the Production of Documents
Matt O'Sullivan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Compare Matt O'Sullivan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Matt O'Sullivan (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Jonathon Duniam | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |