Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023; Report from Federation Chamber
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 44% attendance
Darren Chester and Shayne Neumann have voted the same way 1% of the time
Darren Chester
National Party Representative for Gippsland since June 2008
Shayne Neumann
Australian Labor Party Representative for Blair since November 2007
Since June 2008 Darren Chester and Shayne Neumann have voted in the same division 2144 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 2112 times. They have only voted the same 32 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
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Transgender rights
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 referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- 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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 support for rural and regional Australia
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising certain government services
- 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
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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 2112 times. They have only voted the same 32 times.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023; Report from Federation Chamber
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023; Report from Federation Chamber
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 30 days ago
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 7th Mar 2024
Motions - Middle East: Occupied Palestinian Territories - Let another vote take place
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 55% attendance
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edited 15 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Mr Bates' amendment
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 29th Feb 2024
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Israel - Condemns war crimes in Gaza
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 8th Sep 2023
Public Service Amendment Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Decline bill; respond to Robodebt Royal Commission report
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Safety Net) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Lift income support payments
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Safety Net) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Shift start date
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 10th Feb 2023
Regulations and Determinations - Instrument of Designation of the Republic of Nauru as a Regional Processing Country
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Majority
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Sector-by-sector impact of policies
Darren Chester voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets needed
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - On new fossil fuel projects
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 87% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Darren Chester voted Yes in this free vote
Shayne Neumann voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 31st Jul 2020
Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019 - Consideration in Detail - ISDS clauses
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 18th Oct 2019
Motions - Casinos - Suspend the usual rules
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% 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
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Safeguard conscientious & religious beliefs
Darren Chester voted No in this free vote
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Darren Chester voted No in this free vote
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Darren Chester voted No
Shayne Neumann voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
Darren Chester voted Yes
Shayne Neumann voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance