Compare how Alex Somlyay and Sophie Mirabella voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership
![Photo of Alex Somlyay](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10600.jpg)
Alex Somlyay
Former Liberal Party Representative for Fairfax March 1990 – August 2013
![Photo of Sophie Mirabella](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10461.jpg)
Sophie Mirabella
Former Liberal Party Representative for Indi November 2001 – September 2013
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 Alex Somlyay or Sophie Mirabella could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Alex Somlyay and Sophie Mirabella 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 | Alex Somlyay | Sophie Mirabella | Supporters vote |
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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 |
absent | 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 Alex Somlyay or Sophie Mirabella 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 | Alex Somlyay | Sophie Mirabella | Supporters vote | |||
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no votes listed |