Arthur Sinodinos and Bill Heffernan have voted the same way 100% of the time
Arthur Sinodinos
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW October 2011 – November 2019
Bill Heffernan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW September 1996 – May 2016
Between October 2011 and May 2016 Arthur Sinodinos and Bill Heffernan have voted in the same division 488 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 488 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 carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining