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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Craig Emerson voted No in this free vote
Sharon Grierson voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Craig Emerson and Sharon Grierson have voted the same way 99.6% of the time
Craig Emerson
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Rankin October 1998 – August 2013
Sharon Grierson
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Newcastle November 2001 – August 2013
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2013 Craig Emerson and Sharon Grierson have voted in the same division 960 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 956 times. They have only voted differently 4 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
Voted a mixture of the same and 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
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 956 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Craig Emerson voted Yes in this free vote
Sharon Grierson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Craig Emerson voted Yes in this free vote
Sharon Grierson voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Craig Emerson voted No in this free vote
Sharon Grierson voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance