edited
7th Oct 2014
Motions — Republic of Nauru - Coalition policies
Trish Crossin voted No
Lin Thorp voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
Trish Crossin and Lin Thorp have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Trish Crossin
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NT June 1998 – September 2013
Lin Thorp
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania June 2012 – June 2014
Between June 2012 and September 2013 Trish Crossin and Lin Thorp have voted in the same division 309 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 308 times. They have only voted differently once.
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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 308 times. They have only voted differently once.