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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Steve Gibbons voted Yes in this free vote
Kelvin Thomson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Steve Gibbons and Kelvin Thomson have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Steve Gibbons
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo October 1998 – August 2013
Kelvin Thomson
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Wills March 1996 – May 2016
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2013 Steve Gibbons and Kelvin Thomson have voted in the same division 1021 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1019 times. They have only voted differently twice.
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 differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- Carbon farming
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- 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 fishing restrictions
- 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
- Privatising government-owned assets
- 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)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- 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 1019 times. They have only voted differently twice.
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Steve Gibbons voted Yes in this free vote
Kelvin Thomson voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance