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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Ron Boswell voted Yes
Stephen Parry voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Ron Boswell and Stephen Parry have voted the same way 99% of the time
Ron Boswell
Former National Party Senator for Queensland March 1983 – June 2014
Stephen Parry
Former President Senator for Tasmania July 2014 – November 2017
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and June 2014 Ron Boswell and Stephen Parry have voted in the same division 1154 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1146 times. They have only voted differently 8 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
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1146 times. They have only voted differently 8 times.
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Ron Boswell voted Yes
Stephen Parry voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Ron Boswell voted No
Stephen Parry voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 4) Bill 2009 - In Committee - Carbon sink tax deductions
Ron Boswell voted Yes
Stephen Parry voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 5) Bill 2008 — In Committee
Ron Boswell voted Yes
Stephen Parry voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines — Motion for Disallowance
Ron Boswell voted Yes
Stephen Parry voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Ron Boswell voted No
Stephen Parry voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 84% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 — Second Reading — Read a second time
Ron Boswell voted No
Stephen Parry voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance