edited
16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Arthur Sinodinos voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance
Barry O'Sullivan and Arthur Sinodinos have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Arthur Sinodinos
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW October 2011 – November 2019
Between February 2014 and July 2019 Barry O'Sullivan and Arthur Sinodinos have voted in the same division 691 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 690 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.
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 690 times. They have only voted differently once.