Arthur Sinodinos and Eric Abetz have voted the same way 100% of the time
Arthur Sinodinos
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW October 2011 – November 2019
Eric Abetz
Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania February 1994 – May 2022
Between October 2011 and November 2019 Arthur Sinodinos and Eric Abetz have voted in the same division 662 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 662 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 minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- 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
- 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
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- 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 the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- 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
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining