Tim Ayres and Patrick Dodson have voted the same way 100% of the time
Tim Ayres
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since July 2019
Patrick Dodson
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
Between July 2019 and January 2024 Tim Ayres and Patrick Dodson have voted in the same division 600 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 600 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 character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining