Compare how Mark Arbib and Steve Fielding voted on speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)

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Mark Arbib

Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – March 2012

Voted a mixture of for and against speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
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Steve Fielding

Former Family First Party Senator for Victoria July 2005 – June 2011

Voted consistently for speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)

How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Senators should vote to speed things along by supporting motions to 'put the question' (known as 'closure' or 'gag' motions), which require Parliament to immediately vote on a question rather than debating it any further

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 speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)” which either Mark Arbib or Steve Fielding could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Mark Arbib and Steve Fielding 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 Mark Arbib Steve Fielding Supporters vote

8th Nov 2011 – Senate Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills - In Committee - Put the question

absent - Yes

12th Oct 2011 – Senate Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills - First Reading - Put the question

absent - Yes

11th Oct 2011 – Senate Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010 - Third Reading - Put the question

Yes - Yes

26th Nov 2010, 12:00 PM – Senate Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010 — In Committee - Put the question

absent Yes Yes

15th Mar 2010, 3:46 PM – Senate Food Importation (Bovine Meat Standards) Bill 2010 — Second Reading — Put the question to read a second time

No Yes Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)” which either Mark Arbib or Steve Fielding 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 Mark Arbib Steve Fielding Supporters vote
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