Sam Dastyari and Malarndirri McCarthy have voted the same way 100% of the time
Sam Dastyari
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW August 2013 – January 2018
Malarndirri McCarthy
Australian Labor Party Senator for NT since July 2016
Between July 2016 and January 2018 Sam Dastyari and Malarndirri McCarthy have voted in the same division 243 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 243 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 national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Voluntary student union fees