Compare how Ken O'Dowd and Matt Thistlethwaite voted on putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
![Photo of Ken O'Dowd](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10728.jpg)
Ken O'Dowd
Former National Party Representative for Flynn August 2010 – May 2022
![Photo of Matt Thistlethwaite](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10762.jpg)
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should extend the Cashless Debit Card (or Indue) program on an ongoing basis, meaning that they should continue to put a large proportion of a person's welfare payment onto a debit card that cannot be used for alcohol or gambling and cannot be used to make cash withdrawals (see the policy "For putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial" for votes on the program's trial period)
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 putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis” which either Ken O'Dowd or Matt Thistlethwaite could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Ken O'Dowd and Matt Thistlethwaite 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 "-".
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis” which either Ken O'Dowd or Matt Thistlethwaite 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 | Ken O'Dowd | Matt Thistlethwaite | Supporters vote | |||
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