Wayne Swan and Amanda Rishworth have voted the same way 99.9% of the time

Between November 2007 and May 2019 Wayne Swan and Amanda Rishworth have voted in the same division 1292 times.

In divisions they have voted the same 1291 times. They have only voted differently once.

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.

Voted a mixture of the same and differently on

Same-sex marriage equality

Always voted the same way on

A carbon price
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 same-sex marriage plebiscite
An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
An emissions reduction fund
Carbon farming
Charging postgraduate research students fees
Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
Decreasing availability of welfare payments
Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
Deregulating undergraduate university fees
Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
Drug testing welfare recipients
Ending illegal logging
Ending immigration detention on Nauru
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 funding for road infrastructure
Increasing funding for university education
Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
Increasing investment in renewable energy
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 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)
Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
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
Recognising local government in the Constitution
Reducing the corporate tax rate
Regional processing of asylum seekers
Removing children from immigration detention
Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
Restricting donations to political parties
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
Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Temporary protection visas
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Tighter means testing of family payments
Tobacco plain packaging
Turning back asylum boats when possible
Unconventional gas mining
Voluntary student union fees

Divisions in which they voted differently