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24th Feb 2022
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 51% attendance
Ken O'Dowd and Tim Watts have voted the same way 1% of the time
Ken O'Dowd
Former National Party Representative for Flynn August 2010 – May 2022
Tim Watts
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gellibrand since September 2013
Between September 2013 and May 2022 Ken O'Dowd and Tim Watts have voted in the same division 1318 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1310 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 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
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- 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 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 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
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- 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 foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1310 times. They have only voted the same 8 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Ken O'Dowd voted No
Tim Watts 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
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 21st Dec 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-Sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Ken O'Dowd voted No
Tim Watts voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014 and related bill — Consideration in Detail — Make information public
Ken O'Dowd voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Tim Watts voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 91% attendance