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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
Simon Birmingham and Barnaby Joyce have voted the same way 99% of the time
Simon Birmingham
Liberal Party Senator for SA since May 2007
Barnaby Joyce
National Party Representative for New England since December 2017
Between May 2007 and August 2013 Simon Birmingham and Barnaby Joyce have voted in the same division 589 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 582 times. They have only voted differently 7 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
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 582 times. They have only voted differently 7 times.
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business - Rearrangement - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Barnaby Joyce voted No
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 83% attendance
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Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 5) Bill 2008 — In Committee
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines — Motion for Disallowance
Simon Birmingham voted No
Barnaby Joyce voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Barnaby Joyce voted No
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 84% attendance
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Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 — Second Reading — Read a second time
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Barnaby Joyce voted No
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance