edited
24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Indexation
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
Zed Seselja and Scott Ludlam have voted the same way 12% of the time
Zed Seselja
Former Liberal Party Senator for ACT September 2013 – May 2022
Scott Ludlam
Former Australian Greens Senator for WA July 2008 – July 2017
Between September 2013 and July 2017 Zed Seselja and Scott Ludlam have voted in the same division 689 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 609 times. They have only voted the same 80 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 declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- 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
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- 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
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 609 times. They have only voted the same 80 times.
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Setting SES
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Setting SES
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Distribution of funding
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Limiting commitments
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 24th Nov 2023
Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Transition period
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2017
Major Bank Levy Bill 2017, Treasury Laws Amendment (Major Bank Levy) Bill 2017 - in Committee - International banks
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 13th May 2017
Motions - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Reduce funding
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 6th Apr 2017
Motions - Parliamentarians' Entitlements - Do not increase remuneration until in surplus
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2017
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Gold Pass travel entitlement
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Financial arrangements of ARENA
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 17th Sep 2016
Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016, Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 23rd Aug 2016
Motions - Transport Industry - Support the industry
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Reference to Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2016
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Second Reading
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Second Reading
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2016
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Third Reading
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; Adoption of Report
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2016
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016 - in Committee - Agree to the bill
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Bills — Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Amendment Bill 2016, Trade Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2016; First Reading
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2016
Motions - Election of Senators - Refer to Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 16th Mar 2018
Motions - Defence - Submarines
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Medical Research Future Fund Bill 2015, Medical Research Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2015; in Committee
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Third Reading
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Reporting Date
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Motions — Budget
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Competition and Consumer (Industry Code — Port Terminal Access (Bulk Wheat)) Regulation 2014; Disallowance
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Land Transport Infrastructure Amendment Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Adopt report
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Agree to bill as amended
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Removing debt limit
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Zed Seselja voted Yes
Scott Ludlam voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Zed Seselja voted No
Scott Ludlam voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance