edited
16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance
Barry O'Sullivan and Sean Edwards have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Sean Edwards
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA July 2011 – May 2016
Between February 2014 and May 2016 Barry O'Sullivan and Sean Edwards have voted in the same division 502 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 501 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 minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Reducing air pollution
- 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)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 501 times. They have only voted differently once.