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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Larissa Waters voted No
Barbara Pocock voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Larissa Waters and Barbara Pocock have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Larissa Waters
Australian Greens Senator for Queensland since September 2018
Barbara Pocock
Australian Greens Senator for SA since May 2022
Since May 2022 Larissa Waters and Barbara Pocock have voted in the same division 936 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 935 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Live animal export
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 935 times. They have only voted differently once.