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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Nigel Scullion and Alan Eggleston have voted the same way 99% of the time
Nigel Scullion
Former Country Liberal Party Senator for NT November 2001 – July 2019
Alan Eggleston
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 1996 – June 2014
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and June 2014 Nigel Scullion and Alan Eggleston have voted in the same division 979 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 974 times. They have only voted differently 5 times.
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 differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- 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
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 974 times. They have only voted differently 5 times.
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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Nigel Scullion voted No
Alan Eggleston voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 84% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Nigel Scullion voted Yes
Alan Eggleston voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance