Alex Gallacher and Helen Polley have voted the same way 100% of the time
Alex Gallacher
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for SA July 2011 – August 2021
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Between July 2011 and August 2021 Alex Gallacher and Helen Polley have voted in the same division 1903 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1903 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 carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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 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
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees