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7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Barnaby Joyce and Christopher Back have voted the same way 99% of the time
Barnaby Joyce
National Party Representative for New England since December 2017
Christopher Back
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA March 2009 – July 2017
Between March 2009 and August 2013 Barnaby Joyce and Christopher Back have voted in the same division 446 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 443 times. They have only voted differently 3 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 differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 443 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 4) Bill 2009 - In Committee - Carbon sink tax deductions
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance