Katy Gallagher and Sam Dastyari have voted the same way 100% of the time
Katy Gallagher
Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT since July 2019
Sam Dastyari
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW August 2013 – January 2018
Between March 2015 and January 2018 Katy Gallagher and Sam Dastyari have voted in the same division 479 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 479 times. They have never voted differently.
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
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees