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25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Sue Lines voted Yes
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Sue Lines and Don Farrell have voted the same way 99% of the time
Sue Lines
President Senator for WA since July 2022
Don Farrell
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2016
Since May 2013 Sue Lines and Don Farrell have voted in the same division 1446 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1436 times. They have only voted differently 10 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- 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)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1436 times. They have only voted differently 10 times.
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Sue Lines voted Yes
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted No
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted No
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted Yes
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted No
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted Yes
Don Farrell 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
Sue Lines voted No
Don Farrell voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Sue Lines voted Yes
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Sue Lines voted Yes in this free vote
Don Farrell voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance