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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Barbara Pocock voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Greens
Peter Whish-Wilson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Barbara Pocock and Peter Whish-Wilson have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Barbara Pocock
Australian Greens Senator for SA since May 2022
Peter Whish-Wilson
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania since June 2012
Since May 2022 Barbara Pocock and Peter Whish-Wilson have voted in the same division 353 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 352 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 pay secrecy clauses
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- 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
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- 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 352 times. They have only voted differently once.