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24th Feb 2022
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers
Dave Sharma voted Yes
Fiona Martin voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 51% attendance
Dave Sharma and Fiona Martin have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Dave Sharma
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since November 2023
Fiona Martin
Former Liberal Party Representative for Reid May 2019 – May 2022
Between May 2019 and May 2022 Dave Sharma and Fiona Martin have voted in the same division 696 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 695 times. They have only voted differently once.
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 the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- 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)
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- 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
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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 differently
In divisions they have voted the same 695 times. They have only voted differently once.