Penny Wong and Matt Thistlethwaite have voted the same way 100% of the time
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
Between July 2011 and August 2013 Penny Wong and Matt Thistlethwaite have voted in the same division 146 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 146 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 minerals resource rent tax
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)