Ursula Stephens and Don Farrell have voted the same way 100% of the time
Ursula Stephens
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW July 2002 – June 2014
Don Farrell
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2016
Between July 2008 and June 2014 Ursula Stephens and Don Farrell have voted in the same division 911 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 911 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees