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4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
James McGrath voted No
Wendy Askew voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 93% attendance
James McGrath and Wendy Askew have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
James McGrath
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
Wendy Askew
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since March 2019
Since March 2019 James McGrath and Wendy Askew have voted in the same division 1082 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1079 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 differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1079 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
James McGrath voted No
Wendy Askew voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - in Committee - Agree with the bill
James McGrath voted No
Wendy Askew voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance