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Motions - Mr David Hicks - Call for independent health professional assessment
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 87% attendance
Barnaby Joyce and Bill Heffernan have voted the same way 99% of the time
Barnaby Joyce
National Party Representative for New England since December 2017
Bill Heffernan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW September 1996 – May 2016
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2013 Barnaby Joyce and Bill Heffernan have voted in the same division 604 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 596 times. They have only voted differently 8 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
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 596 times. They have only voted differently 8 times.
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Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005 — Consideration of House of Representatives Message — Adopt committee report (DUPLICATE)
Barnaby Joyce voted No, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Adopt committee report
Barnaby Joyce voted No, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Constitution of Tribunal
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 - In Committee - Definition of goods
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed
1 rebellion 92% attendance
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Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 - In Committee - Disclosing product discount
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed
1 rebellion 89% attendance
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Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 - In Committee - Limiting the percentage of the market controlled by major oil companies
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 74% attendance
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Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 - In Committee - Prevention of abuse of market power
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Bill Heffernan voted No
Not passed
1 rebellion 87% attendance