Statements — Personal Explanation
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Michael Sukkar and Julie Collins have voted the same way 2% of the time
Michael Sukkar
Liberal Party Representative for Deakin since September 2013
Julie Collins
Australian Labor Party Representative for Franklin since November 2007
Since September 2013 Michael Sukkar and Julie Collins have voted in the same division 1746 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1705 times. They have only voted the same 41 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
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- 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 same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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 access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1705 times. They have only voted the same 41 times.
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% 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
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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Bills — Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Third Reading
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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Bills — Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024; Consideration in Detail
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 14th Mar 2024
Help to Buy Bill 2023 and another - Consideration in Detail - Cooperation with lenders and ministerial directions
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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edited 14th Mar 2024
Help to Buy Bill 2023, Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Directions are to be disallowable
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2024
Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Mr Bates' amendment
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 20th Apr 2024
Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 - Consideration of Senate Message - Workplace delegates
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Increase speaking time for first Opposition speaker
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2024
Business - Rearrangement - Put the question
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Israel - Condemns war crimes in Gaza
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Safety Net) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Lift income support payments
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Safety Net) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Shift start date
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins 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
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins 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
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins 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
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 60% attendance
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edited 1st Sep 2023
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management Reform) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Apr 2023
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management Reform) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Against compulsory income management
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 10th Mar 2023
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Misleading and deceptive advertising
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 52% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Regional Australia and critical infrastructure
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 60% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Proportion of grants to regional, rural and remote Australia
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Review process in 2025
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Housing crisis
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 55% attendance
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edited 10th Feb 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Let a vote take place
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - No price freeze
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Objects of bill
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 51% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Equal-access approach
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Extending protection
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 56% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets needed
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Public Sector Superannuation Salary Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% 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
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Standards and Assurance) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Do not reject bill
Michael Sukkar voted Yes
Julie Collins voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins 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
Michael Sukkar voted No
Julie Collins voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance