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4th Jul 2024
Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024 and two others - Second Reading - Criticism of bills
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Ross Vasta and Joanne Ryan have voted the same way 2% of the time
Ross Vasta
Liberal Party Representative for Bonner since August 2010
Joanne Ryan
Australian Labor Party Representative for Lalor since September 2013
Since September 2013 Ross Vasta and Joanne Ryan have voted in the same division 1452 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1422 times. They have only voted the same 30 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
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Capping gas prices
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- 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)
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1422 times. They have only voted the same 30 times.
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 7th Aug 2024
Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Housekeeping and renewable energy zones
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 25% attendance
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edited 7th Aug 2024
Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Review of the operation of this Act
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 36% attendance
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edited 7th Aug 2024
Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Appointment of Board members
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 38% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2024
Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024 - Report from Federation Chamber - End native forest logging
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2024
New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024, New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024 - Third Reading - Put the question
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 98% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2024
Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Shorten timeframe
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 23rd Jul 2024
Motions - Climate Change - Suspend the rules to let another motion be moved
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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Bills — Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Consideration in Detail
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2024
Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Mr Bates' amendment
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Climate Change: Threat and Risk Assessment - Let a vote happen
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 29th Sep 2023
Motions - Overthrow of Chilean Government: 50th Anniversary - Let a vote happen
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 44% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2023
Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Apr 2023
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management Reform) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - No compulsory income management
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 60% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Housing crisis
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 55% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2022
Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Free universal early childhood education and care
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Ross Vasta voted Yes in this free vote
Joanne Ryan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 21st Dec 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-Sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Ross Vasta voted Yes
Joanne Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Ross Vasta voted No
Joanne Ryan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance