John Faulkner and Kim Carr have voted the same way 100% of the time
John Faulkner
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW April 1989 – February 2015
Kim Carr
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria April 1993 – May 2022
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and February 2015 John Faulkner and Kim Carr have voted in the same division 766 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 766 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
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- 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