Compare how Alex Somlyay and Bill Shorten voted on a plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
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Alex Somlyay
Former Liberal Party Representative for Fairfax March 1990 – August 2013
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Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should hold a plebiscite to gauge whether citizens support or oppose introducing a carbon pricing mechanism (also known as a 'carbon tax')
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 a plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism” which either Alex Somlyay or Bill Shorten could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Alex Somlyay and Bill Shorten 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 | Bill Shorten | Supporters vote |
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15th Sep 2011 – Representatives Carbon Tax Plebiscite Bill 2011 - Second Reading - Read a second time |
Yes | No | Yes |
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for a plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism” which either Alex Somlyay or Bill Shorten 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 | Bill Shorten | Supporters vote | |||
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