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20th May 2022
Motions - Seasonal Worker Program - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
Zed Seselja and Lidia Thorpe have voted the same way 6% of the time
Zed Seselja
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT September 2013 – May 2022
Lidia Thorpe
Independent Senator for Victoria since February 2023
Between September 2020 and May 2022 Zed Seselja and Lidia Thorpe have voted in the same division 381 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 357 times. They have only voted the same 24 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 357 times. They have only voted the same 24 times.
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edited 20th May 2022
Motions - Employment, Western Australia: Resources Industry - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 30th Jul 2021
Motions - Medicare, Tasmania: Queen's Birthday Honours, Superannuation - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 1st Oct 2021
COAG Reform Fund Amendment (No Electric Vehicle Taxes) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Put the question
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 2nd Jul 2021
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Support delivery of Plan
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 17th Jun 2021
Motions - Several motions - Suspend the usual procedural rules
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Jun 2022
Motions - Child Care - Move and vote on immediately
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 1st Jul 2022
Motions - Covid-19: International Travel, Coal Mining, Reconciliation Week - Suspend procedural rules
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 1st Jul 2022
Motions - World Ms Day, Workforce Participation, Rotary Australia - Suspend procedural rules
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 1st Jul 2022
Motions - Banking and Financial Services - Suspend the usual procedual rules
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 18th Mar 2021
Motions - National Disability Insurance Scheme, Aged Care: Dementia - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2022
Motions - Landcare Australia - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 5th Mar 2021
Motions - NBN Co - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 5th Mar 2021
Motions - Northern Territory: Crime - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 5th Mar 2021
Motions - Gas Industry - Implement Callaghan Report recommendations
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 4th Mar 2022
Motions - Manufacturing, Catholic Education - Let a vote take place
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 5th Mar 2021
Motions - Workplace Relations: Food Delivery Industry, Mental Health Services - Let votes happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 24th Sep 2022
Motions - Bombing of Darwin: 79th Anniversary, Fiji: Cyclone Yasa - Let a vote happen
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Lidia Thorpe voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 24th Sep 2022
Committees - Use of Commonwealth Grant Money in Queensland Local Government: Select Committee - Appointment
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 5th Feb 2021
Motions - Coal-Fired Power Stations - Build in the Hunter
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 22nd Jan 2021
Foreign Investment Reform (Protecting Australia's National Security) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Pauline Hanson amendments
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 18th Dec 2020
Motions - Australian Defence Force - Do not strip citations
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 20th Nov 2020
Motions - Queensland State Election - One Nation and the Greens Party
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 16th Oct 2020
Motions - Queensland State Election - Concerns about the Greens
Zed Seselja voted No
Lidia Thorpe voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance