Compare how Brendan Nelson and Michael Ferguson voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership
Brendan Nelson
Former Liberal Party Representative for Bradfield March 1996 – October 2009
Michael Ferguson
Former Liberal Party Representative for Bass October 2004 – November 2007
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should use regulation to increase the diversity of publishers and broadcasters in Australia's media industry by, for example, setting a threshold for the maximum market share of any one company.
Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?
Most important divisions relevant to this policy
These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Brendan Nelson or Michael Ferguson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Brendan Nelson and Michael Ferguson on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
| Division | Brendan Nelson | Michael Ferguson | Supporters vote |
|---|---|---|---|
18th Oct 2006, 12:09 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Pass the bill |
Yes | Yes | No |
18th Oct 2006, 12:02 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Remove new cross-media ownership laws from bill |
No | No | Yes |
18th Oct 2006, 11:21 AM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea |
Yes | Yes | No |
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Brendan Nelson or Michael Ferguson could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
| Division | Brendan Nelson | Michael Ferguson | Supporters vote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no votes listed | ||||||