Chris Ketter and Patrick Dodson have voted the same way 100% of the time
Chris Ketter
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland July 2014 – July 2019
Patrick Dodson
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
Between April 2016 and July 2019 Chris Ketter and Patrick Dodson have voted in the same division 569 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 569 times. They have never voted differently.
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 declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 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 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- 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
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining