edited
4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
Jason Wood and Bill Shorten have voted the same way 1% of the time
Jason Wood
Liberal Party Representative for La Trobe since September 2013
Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
Since November 2007 Jason Wood and Bill Shorten have voted in the same division 1318 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1307 times. They have only voted the same 11 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 pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- 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 trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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 Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- 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
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1307 times. They have only voted the same 11 times.
-
-
edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
-
edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets needed
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes in this free vote
Bill Shorten voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
-
edited 5th Aug 2022
Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
-
edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
-
edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Jason Wood voted No in this free vote
Bill Shorten voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 83% attendance
-
edited 7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Jason Wood voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance