Compare how Bill Heffernan and Ian Macdonald voted on the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

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Bill Heffernan

Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW September 1996 – May 2016

Voted consistently against the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
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Ian Macdonald

Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland July 1990 – July 2019

Voted almost always against the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should fund and maintain the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, or ARENA, as an independent body that manages the government's renewable energy programs

Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)” which either Bill Heffernan or Ian Macdonald could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Bill Heffernan and Ian Macdonald on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".

Division Bill Heffernan Ian Macdonald Supporters vote

15th Sep 2016, 11:35 PM – Senate Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

- absent No

15th Sep 2016, 10:27 PM – Senate Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - in Committee - ARENA

- Yes No

15th Sep 2016, 9:25 PM – Senate Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree to the main idea

- Yes No

17th Jul 2014, 10:41 AM – Senate Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014 — In Committee — Funding to ARENA

Yes Yes No

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)” which either Bill Heffernan or Ian Macdonald could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".

Division Bill Heffernan Ian Macdonald Supporters vote

15th Sep 2016, 9:21 PM – Senate Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Financial arrangements of ARENA

- No Yes

15th Sep 2016, 9:12 PM – Senate Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Second Reading - ARENA funding

- No Yes

3rd May 2016, 4:02 PM – Senate Motions - Budget - Australian Renewable Energy Agency

No No Yes