Compare how Tony Abbott and Gai Brodtmann voted on decreasing availability of welfare payments
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Tony Abbott
Former Liberal Party Representative for Warringah March 1994 – May 2019
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Gai Brodtmann
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Canberra August 2010 – May 2019
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should limit the availability of government social security payments
Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?
Most important divisions relevant to this policy
These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for decreasing availability of welfare payments” which either Tony Abbott or Gai Brodtmann could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Tony Abbott and Gai Brodtmann on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for decreasing availability of welfare payments” which either Tony Abbott or Gai Brodtmann could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".