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21 days ago
Paid Parental Leave Amendment (More Support for Working Families) Bill 2023 - in Committee - Small business employers
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
James McGrath and David Van have voted the same way 99% of the time
James McGrath
Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland since July 2014
David Van
Independent Senator for Victoria since June 2023
Since July 2019 James McGrath and David Van have voted in the same division 920 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 909 times. They have only voted differently 11 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- 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
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- 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 political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- 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
- 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 Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 909 times. They have only voted differently 11 times.
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edited 21 days ago
Paid Parental Leave Amendment (More Support for Working Families) Bill 2023 - in Committee - Small business employers
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Independent Review) Bill 2023; in Committee
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Indigenous people and SDLAM project withdrawal
James McGrath voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 79% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Complementary measures
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Held water and socio-economic outcomes
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Keep bill items as they are; held environmental water
James McGrath voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
James McGrath voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
James McGrath voted Yes
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
James McGrath voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 15th Feb 2024
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
James McGrath voted No
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 76% attendance