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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kelvin Thomson voted No in this free vote
Alex Hawke voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Kelvin Thomson and Alex Hawke have voted the same way 0.3% of the time
Kelvin Thomson
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Wills March 1996 – May 2016
Alex Hawke
Liberal Party Representative for Mitchell since November 2007
Between November 2007 and May 2016 Kelvin Thomson and Alex Hawke have voted in the same division 1099 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1096 times. They have only voted the same 3 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- 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
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- 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 marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 the age pension
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1096 times. They have only voted the same 3 times.
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Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
Kelvin Thomson voted Yes
Alex Hawke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kelvin Thomson voted Yes
Alex Hawke voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance