Bills — Medical Research Future Fund Bill 2015, Medical Research Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2015; in Committee
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Simon Birmingham and Penny Wright have voted the same way 3% of the time
Simon Birmingham
Liberal Party Senator for SA since May 2007
Penny Wright
Former Australian Greens Senator for SA July 2011 – September 2015
Between July 2011 and September 2015 Simon Birmingham and Penny Wright have voted in the same division 840 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 814 times. They have only voted the same 26 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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- 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 accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- 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 foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- 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
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- 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 the same
In divisions they have voted differently 814 times. They have only voted the same 26 times.
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Third Reading
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015; Second Reading
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Reporting Date
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance
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Business — Days and Hours of Meeting
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 14th Nov 2014
Committees - Certain Aspects of Queensland Government Administration - Include Bligh Government in inquiry
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Adopt report
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Agree to bill as amended
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2013 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Removing debt limit
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Reinstatement of Temporary Protection Visas) Bill 2013 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Put the question
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Marine Engineers Qualifications Bill 2013; Second Reading
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright 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
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Migration Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 6); Disallowance
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; in Committee
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Bills - Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills; Second Reading
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Wind Farms - Act on the Community Affairs References Committee's recommendations
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2011, Aviation Transport Security Amendment (Air Cargo) Bill 2011, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in Bri...
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Motions — Asylum Seekers
Simon Birmingham voted Yes
Penny Wright voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Bills — National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill 2011; in Committee
Simon Birmingham voted No
Penny Wright voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance