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Private Members' Business - University Funding - Reverse decision to cut univeristy funding
Ed Husic voted No
Bruce Billson voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 27% attendance
Ed Husic and Bruce Billson have voted the same way 1% of the time
Ed Husic
Australian Labor Party Representative for Chifley since August 2010
Bruce Billson
Former Liberal Party Representative for Dunkley March 1996 – May 2016
Between August 2010 and May 2016 Ed Husic and Bruce Billson have voted in the same division 837 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 829 times. They have only voted the same 8 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 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
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the age pension
- 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)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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
- 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 829 times. They have only voted the same 8 times.
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Ed Husic voted Yes
Bruce Billson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Ed Husic voted No
Bruce Billson voted No
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Ed Husic voted Yes
Bruce Billson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Ed Husic voted Yes
Bruce Billson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Ed Husic voted Yes
Bruce Billson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Ed Husic voted No in this free vote
Bruce Billson voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
Ed Husic voted Yes
Bruce Billson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance