edited
3rd Jul 2024
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
Catherine King and Russell Broadbent have voted the same way 1% of the time
Catherine King
Australian Labor Party Representative for Ballarat since November 2001
Russell Broadbent
Independent Representative for Monash since November 2023
Since February 2006 (when our voting records begin) Catherine King and Russell Broadbent have voted in the same division 2425 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 2399 times. They have only voted the same 26 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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising certain government services
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 2399 times. They have only voted the same 26 times.
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edited 20th Apr 2024
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 - Consideration of Senate Message - Workplace delegates
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Increase speaking time for first Opposition speaker
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Israel - Condemns war crimes in Gaza
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 1st Sep 2023
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management Reform) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 24th Mar 2023
Motions - Climate Change - Don't let a vote happen
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Extending protection
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 56% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 22nd Jan 2021
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Withdrawal from Amalgamations) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Keep second reading motion unchanged
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 37% attendance
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edited 31st Jul 2020
Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019 - Consideration in Detail - ISDS clauses
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 1st Aug 2019
Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Agree with the bills' main idea
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
Catherine King voted Yes
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Catherine King voted Yes in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 — Third Reading — Read a third time
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
3 rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
3 rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Catherine King voted No
Russell Broadbent voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
3 rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Catherine King voted No in this free vote
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance