Steve Hutchins and Mark Arbib have voted the same way 100% of the time

Steve Hutchins
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW October 1998 – June 2011

Mark Arbib
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – March 2012
Between July 2008 and June 2011 Steve Hutchins and Mark Arbib have voted in the same division 295 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 295 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Voluntary student union fees