Mike Freelander and Chris Bowen have voted the same way 100% of the time
Mike Freelander
Australian Labor Party Representative for Macarthur since July 2016
Chris Bowen
Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon since August 2010
Since July 2016 Mike Freelander and Chris Bowen have voted in the same division 1416 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1416 times. They have never voted differently.
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
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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 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)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- 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 tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards