How Bill Shorten voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should increase the amount that patients pay for medicine under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (known as the 'co-payment')

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing the price of subsidised medicine” which Bill Shorten could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Bill Shorten on this policy.

Division Bill Shorten Supporters vote

16th Jul 2014, 6:36 PM – Representatives National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Read a third time

absent Yes

16th Jul 2014, 6:05 PM – Representatives National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Consideration in Detail — Agree to the bill

absent Yes

16th Jul 2014, 4:30 PM – Representatives National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Second Reading — Read a second time

absent Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing the price of subsidised medicine” which Bill Shorten could have attended.

Division Bill Shorten Supporters vote
no votes listed

How "We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on" is worked out

Normally a person's votes count towards a score which is used to work out a simple phrase to summarise their position on a policy. However in this case Bill Shorten was absent during all divisions for this policy. So, it's impossible to say anything concrete.