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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
Malcolm Turnbull and Joel Fitzgibbon have voted the same way 1% of the time
Malcolm Turnbull
Former Liberal Party Representative for Wentworth October 2004 – August 2018
Joel Fitzgibbon
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Hunter March 1996 – May 2022
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2018 Malcolm Turnbull and Joel Fitzgibbon have voted in the same division 1547 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1536 times. They have only voted the same 11 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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A citizenship test
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1536 times. They have only voted the same 11 times.
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted No
Joel Fitzgibbon voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 91% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 83% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% 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
Malcolm Turnbull voted No in this free vote
Joel Fitzgibbon 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
Malcolm Turnbull voted No in this free vote
Joel Fitzgibbon 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 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Malcolm Turnbull voted Yes in this free vote
Joel Fitzgibbon voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance