Compare how Kym Richardson and Martin Ferguson voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership

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Kym Richardson

Former Liberal Party Representative for Kingston October 2004 – November 2007

Voted consistently against increasing the diversity of media ownership
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Martin Ferguson

Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Batman March 1996 – August 2013

Voted consistently for increasing the diversity of media ownership

How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should use regulation to increase the diversity of publishers and broadcasters in Australia's media industry by, for example, setting a threshold for the maximum market share of any one company.

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 increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Kym Richardson or Martin Ferguson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Kym Richardson and Martin Ferguson 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 "-".

Division Kym Richardson Martin Ferguson Supporters vote

18th Oct 2006, 12:09 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

Yes No No

18th Oct 2006, 12:02 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Remove new cross-media ownership laws from bill

No Yes Yes

18th Oct 2006, 11:21 AM – Representatives Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

Yes No No

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Kym Richardson or Martin Ferguson 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 Kym Richardson Martin Ferguson Supporters vote
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