edited
7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Daryl Melham voted No in this free vote
Catherine King voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Daryl Melham and Catherine King have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Daryl Melham
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Banks March 1990 – September 2013
Catherine King
Australian Labor Party Representative for Ballarat since November 2001
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and September 2013 Daryl Melham and Catherine King have voted in the same division 952 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 951 times. They have only voted differently once.
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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 951 times. They have only voted differently once.