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24th Feb 2022
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 51% attendance
Greg Hunt and Tony Burke have voted the same way 0.4% of the time
Greg Hunt
Former Liberal Party Representative for Flinders November 2001 – May 2022
Tony Burke
Australian Labor Party Representative for Watson since October 2004
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and May 2022 Greg Hunt and Tony Burke have voted in the same division 2476 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 2465 times. They have only voted the same 11 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 character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- 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 fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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 restrictions on gambling
- 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
- 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
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- 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 2465 times. They have only voted the same 11 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Tony Burke voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Greg Hunt voted No
Tony Burke voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 1st Aug 2019
Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Agree with the bills' main idea
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Greg Hunt voted No
Tony Burke voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Greg Hunt voted Yes
Tony Burke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Greg Hunt voted Yes in this free vote
Tony Burke voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance