Compare how Bill Shorten and Ken O'Dowd voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership

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Bill Shorten

Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007

Voted generally for increasing the diversity of media ownership
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Ken O'Dowd

Former National Party Representative for Flynn August 2010 – May 2022

Voted consistently against 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 Bill Shorten or Ken O'Dowd could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Bill Shorten and Ken O'Dowd 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 Bill Shorten Ken O'Dowd Supporters vote

21st Jun 2017, 11:21 AM – Representatives Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bills

No Yes No

21st Jun 2017, 11:11 AM – Representatives Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - 2 out of 3 cross-media control rule

absent No Yes

21st Jun 2017, 10:57 AM – Representatives Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree to bills' main idea

absent Yes No

30th Nov 2016, 5:48 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Media Reform) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Cross-media control rule

Yes No Yes

30th Nov 2016, 4:58 PM – Representatives Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Media Reform) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

No Yes 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 Bill Shorten or Ken O'Dowd 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 Bill Shorten Ken O'Dowd Supporters vote
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