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1st Aug 2019
Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Agree with the bills' main idea
John McVeigh voted Yes
Tony Zappia voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
John McVeigh and Tony Zappia have voted the same way 0.3% of the time
John McVeigh
Former Liberal Party Representative for Groom July 2016 – September 2020
Tony Zappia
Australian Labor Party Representative for Makin since November 2007
Between July 2016 and September 2020 John McVeigh and Tony Zappia have voted in the same division 758 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 756 times. They have only voted the same twice.
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
Always voted differently on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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 university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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 transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- 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
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 756 times. They have only voted the same twice.