Tim Hammond and Meryl Swanson have voted the same way 100% of the time
Tim Hammond
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Perth July 2016 – May 2018
Meryl Swanson
Australian Labor Party Representative for Paterson since July 2016
Between July 2016 and May 2018 Tim Hammond and Meryl Swanson have voted in the same division 310 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 310 times. They have never voted differently.
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 citizenship test
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- 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
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments