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Clare O'Neil

Clare O'Neil is the Australian Labor Party MP for Hotham. First elected 7 September 2013.

2013 Won Hotham, entered parliament
2022 Became Home Affairs minister
2022 Became Cyber Security minister
2024 Became Housing minister
2013 May 2026
  1. 2013 Won Hotham, entered parliament
  2. 2022 Became Home Affairs minister
  3. 2022 Became Cyber Security minister
  4. 2024 Became Housing minister
  • Australian Labor Party

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Immigration, border & security 15
  • Budget, tax & economy 10
  • Welfare & housing 2
  • Transport & communications 2
  • Law, justice & rights 1

Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.

How do they vote?

Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.

  • Labor 100%
  • Greens 73%
  • Coalition 12%
  • One Nation 0%

397 tracked votes while with Labor.

How do they compare?

  • Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 12.8 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
  • Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
  • Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 18 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 7.9 226
Where their votes sit, left to right i Built from votes alone: party members sit at their party's mark and move only by votes cast against their own party toward a neighbouring one. Independents are placed by their side on the votes where the parties disagreed.
Clare Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.

What have they done lately?

On 25 June 2026, O'Neil voted Aye on a proposed amendment to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) tax-reform bill; it carried 98–39. On 4 June, she voted No on several specific questions under the separate Income Tax Rates Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) income-tax bill, including calls about small-business thresholds, capital-gains-tax changes and higher taxes. The pack also records her Aye on the income-tax bill’s second reading and a 3 June speech supporting both tax-reform bills. It records no Aye outcome for the cheaper-medicines amendment votes cheaper-medicines bill.

When do they vote against their party?

Clare recorded no votes against the Labor position across 397 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

34 tracked speeches across 25 bills.

  • 34 backing a bill
  • 0 with reservations
  • 0 against
  • 0 no clear position

About these numbers

Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.

Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.