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13th Aug 2021
Motions - Covid-19 - Unity in COVID response
Sam McMahon voted No
Ben Small voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Sam McMahon and Ben Small have voted the same way 99% of the time
Sam McMahon
Former Country Liberal Party Senator for NT July 2019 – May 2022
Ben Small
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA November 2020 – May 2022
Between November 2020 and May 2022 Sam McMahon and Ben Small have voted in the same division 408 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 405 times. They have only voted differently 3 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
Always voted the same way on
- A declared area offence
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 405 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Environmental outcomes
Sam McMahon voted Yes
Ben Small voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 9th Jul 2021
Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Nationals' amendments
Sam McMahon voted Yes
Ben Small voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance