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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Gary Humphries voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Gary Humphries and Christopher Back have voted the same way 99% of the time
Gary Humphries
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT February 2003 – September 2013
Christopher Back
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA March 2009 – July 2017
Between March 2009 and September 2013 Gary Humphries and Christopher Back have voted in the same division 553 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 548 times. They have only voted differently 5 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 differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 548 times. They have only voted differently 5 times.
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Gary Humphries voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Gary Humphries voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Gary Humphries voted No
Christopher Back voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Gary Humphries voted Yes
Christopher Back voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance