edited
23rd Nov 2018
Motions - E-Cigarettes - Legalise liquid nicotine
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes
Michaelia Cash voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Barry O'Sullivan and Michaelia Cash have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Barry O'Sullivan
Former National Party Senator for Queensland February 2014 – July 2019
Michaelia Cash
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2008
Between February 2014 and July 2019 Barry O'Sullivan and Michaelia Cash have voted in the same division 960 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 957 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 the same way on
- A carbon price
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- 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 freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- 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 foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- 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)
- 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
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 957 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 8th Nov 2018
Motions - Infrastructure - Construct the Bradfield Scheme
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Michaelia Cash voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Barry O'Sullivan voted Yes, rebelling against the National Party
Michaelia Cash voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance