Bills — Medical Research Future Fund Bill 2015, Medical Research Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2015; in Committee
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Bill Heffernan and Penny Wright have voted the same way 3% of the time
Bill Heffernan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW September 1996 – May 2016
Penny Wright
Former Australian Greens Senator for SA July 2011 – September 2015
Between July 2011 and September 2015 Bill Heffernan and Penny Wright have voted in the same division 583 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 566 times. They have only voted the same 17 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 character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- 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
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 566 times. They have only voted the same 17 times.
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Bills — National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2015; in Committee
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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Motions — Budget
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 14th Nov 2014
Committees - Certain Aspects of Queensland Government Administration - Include Bligh Government in inquiry
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Reinstatement of Temporary Protection Visas) Bill 2013 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Put the question
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; in Committee
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 21st Jul 2016
Motions - Cubbie Station - Foreign investment
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development) Bill 2012 - In Commit...
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Coalition policies (a)
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Bill Heffernan voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Wind Farms - Act on the Community Affairs References Committee's recommendations
Bill Heffernan voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance