Compare how Penny Wong and John Watson voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership

Penny Wong

Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002

Voted generally for increasing the diversity of media ownership

John Watson

Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania July 1978 – June 2008

Voted consistently against increasing the diversity of media ownership

How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should use regulation to increase the diversity of publishers and broadcasters in Australia's media industry by, for example, setting a threshold for the maximum market share of any one company.

Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Penny Wong or John Watson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Penny Wong and John Watson on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Penny Wong or John Watson could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".