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7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
John Cobb voted No
Joe Hockey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 83% attendance
John Cobb and Joe Hockey have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
John Cobb
Former National Party Representative for Calare November 2007 – May 2016
Joe Hockey
Former Liberal Party Representative for North Sydney March 1996 – October 2015
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and October 2015 John Cobb and Joe Hockey have voted in the same division 989 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 986 times. They have only voted differently 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.
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
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 986 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
John Cobb voted No
Joe Hockey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
John Cobb voted No in this free vote
Joe Hockey voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance