Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
John Cobb voted Yes
Rob Mitchell voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
John Cobb and Rob Mitchell have voted the same way 0.4% of the time
John Cobb
Former National Party Representative for Calare November 2007 – May 2016
Rob Mitchell
Australian Labor Party Representative for McEwen since August 2010
Between August 2010 and May 2016 John Cobb and Rob Mitchell have voted in the same division 820 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 817 times. They have only voted the same 3 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 differently on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 the age pension
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 817 times. They have only voted the same 3 times.
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
John Cobb voted Yes
Rob Mitchell voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
John Cobb voted Yes
Rob Mitchell voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance