edited
7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Pat Farmer voted Yes
Craig Emerson voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Pat Farmer and Craig Emerson have voted the same way 0.2% of the time
Pat Farmer
Former Liberal Party Representative for Macarthur November 2001 – August 2010
Craig Emerson
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin October 1998 – August 2013
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2010 Pat Farmer and Craig Emerson have voted in the same division 504 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 503 times. They have only voted the same 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
Always voted differently on
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 503 times. They have only voted the same once.