edited
7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Mark Coulton voted No
Alex Somlyay voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 83% attendance
Mark Coulton and Alex Somlyay have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Mark Coulton
Deputy Speaker Representative for Parkes since August 2016
Alex Somlyay
Former Liberal Party Representative for Fairfax March 1990 – August 2013
Between November 2007 and August 2013 Mark Coulton and Alex Somlyay have voted in the same division 647 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 645 times. They have only voted differently twice.
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 minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 645 times. They have only voted differently twice.