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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Climate Change - Amendment
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Arthur Sinodinos and Cory Bernardi have voted the same way 96% of the time
Arthur Sinodinos
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW October 2011 – November 2019
Cory Bernardi
Former Australian Conservatives Senator for SA February 2017 – January 2020
Between October 2011 and November 2019 Arthur Sinodinos and Cory Bernardi have voted in the same division 932 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 894 times. They have only voted differently 38 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
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting whistleblowers
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Pill testing
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 894 times. They have only voted differently 38 times.
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edited 7th Aug 2020
Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - Moratorium
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Jul 2019
Documents - Commissioner of Taxation - Order for the Production of Documents
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 6th Sep 2019
Committees - Finance and Public Administration References Committee - Reference
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Migrants Convicted of Being a Member of a Terrorist Organisation - Establish criteria
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 63% attendance
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edited 12th Oct 2018
Motions - Minister Representing the Minister for Aged Care - Home care packages
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and two others - Reference to Committee - For inquiry
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 15th Feb 2018
Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Amendments
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2018
Motions - Renewable Energy - Against target and subsidies
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Defence Procurement - Order for the Production of Documents
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Three bills
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Competition and Consumer Amendment (Abolition of Limited Merits Review) Bill 2017
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment (Make Electricity Gst Free) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2023
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 27th Oct 2023
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2017
Motions - Parliamentary Representation - Qualifications of Senators
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017, Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Motions - National Security - Consistency in airport mandatory screening
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Committees - Murray-Darling Basin - Independent national judicial inquiry
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2017
Motions - Asylum Seekers - Withdraw from Refugee Convention
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2017
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Criminalise "revenge porn"
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Gst Low Value Goods) Bill 2017; Third Reading
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Saudi Arabia - Order for the Production of Documents
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Bills — Transport Security Amendment (Serious or Organised Crime) Bill 2016; in Committee
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Documents — Bell Group Liquidation; Order for the Production of Documents
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016; in Committee
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 14th Apr 2017
Motions - Child Sexual Abuse - List of perpetrators
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Cory Bernardi voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Arthur Sinodinos voted Yes
Cory Bernardi voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance