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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Karen Grogan voted No
Jess Walsh voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Karen Grogan and Jess Walsh have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Karen Grogan
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since September 2021
Jess Walsh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since July 2019
Since September 2021 Karen Grogan and Jess Walsh have voted in the same division 669 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 668 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
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- 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
- 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
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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)
- 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
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- 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 rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 668 times. They have only voted differently once.