edited
24th Feb 2022
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 51% attendance
Russell Broadbent and Tim Watts have voted the same way 1% of the time
Russell Broadbent
Liberal Party Representative for Monash since May 2019
Tim Watts
Australian Labor Party Representative for Gellibrand since September 2013
Since September 2013 Russell Broadbent and Tim Watts have voted in the same division 1290 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1278 times. They have only voted the same 12 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 citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- 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
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- 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
- 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 foreign ownership
- 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 Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1278 times. They have only voted the same 12 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Russell Broadbent voted No
Tim Watts voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 1st Aug 2019
Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 and another - Second Reading - Agree with the bills' main idea
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 21st Dec 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-Sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Russell Broadbent voted Yes
Tim Watts voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charities
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Facilities
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Charitable status
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2018
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Consideration in Detail - Def of marriage + conscientious protections
Russell Broadbent voted No in this free vote
Tim Watts voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 94% attendance