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20th Jun 2019
Motions - Competition Policy - Introduced an effects test
David Fawcett voted No
John Williams voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
David Fawcett and John Williams have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
David Fawcett
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2011
John Williams
Former National Party Senator for NSW July 2008 – July 2019
Between July 2011 and July 2019 David Fawcett and John Williams have voted in the same division 1606 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1602 times. They have only voted differently 4 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
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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 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 price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Privatising the ABC
- 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- 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 former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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 territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1602 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
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Committees — Financial Services
David Fawcett voted No
John Williams voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Fawcett voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
John Williams voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
David Fawcett voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
John Williams voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance