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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Jim Molan voted Yes in this free vote
Mitch Fifield voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Jim Molan and Mitch Fifield have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Jim Molan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW November 2019 – January 2023
Mitch Fifield
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria March 2004 – September 2019
Between December 2017 and July 2019 Jim Molan and Mitch Fifield have voted in the same division 329 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 328 times. They have only voted differently once.
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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 328 times. They have only voted differently once.