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Deborah O'Neill

Deborah O'Neill is an Australian Labor Party senator for New South Wales. First elected 21 August 2010.

2010 Won Robertson, entered parliament
2013 Won Senate seat, changed chamber
2014 Began new Senate term
2010 May 2026
  1. 2010 Won Robertson, entered parliament
  2. 2013 Won Senate seat, changed chamber
  3. 2014 Began new Senate term
  • Australian Labor Party
  • Out of this seat

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Budget, tax & economy 10
  • Health, care & disability 3
  • Law, justice & rights 2
  • Education & skills 2
  • Welfare & housing 2

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%
  • Coalition 53%
  • Greens 52%
  • One Nation 34%

836 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. 15.7 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. 0 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.
Deborah 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?

In June 2026, O’Neill supported the cooperative workplaces bill, which passed 31–25. She strongly backed the income tax reform bill in a speech; in tracked Senate votes, she voted Aye on keeping capital-gains-tax and gearing changes and on restricting SMSF property borrowing, while voting No on proposals to keep negative gearing for one or two homes. In January, she supported hate and extremism laws but voted No on recorded questions about scrutiny, safeguards and scope; those were votes on specific questions, not necessarily the whole bill.

When do they vote against their party?

Deborah recorded no votes against the Labor position across 836 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

31 tracked speeches across 30 bills.

  • 26 backing a bill
  • 0 with reservations
  • 2 against
  • 3 no clear position

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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.