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18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
James Stevens voted Yes
Bill Shorten voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
James Stevens and Bill Shorten have voted the same way 0.4% of the time
James Stevens
Liberal Party Representative for Sturt since May 2019
Bill Shorten
Australian Labor Party Representative for Maribyrnong since November 2007
Since May 2019 James Stevens and Bill Shorten have voted in the same division 495 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 493 times. They have only voted the same 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 493 times. They have only voted the same twice.