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Bills - Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills; Second Reading
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Bob Brown and George Brandis have voted the same way 5% of the time
Bob Brown
Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania July 1996 – June 2012
George Brandis
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland May 2000 – February 2018
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and June 2012 Bob Brown and George Brandis have voted in the same division 772 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 733 times. They have only voted the same 39 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 minerals resource rent tax
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 733 times. They have only voted the same 39 times.
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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...
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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Motions — Asylum Seekers
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Food Importation (Bovine Meat Standards) Bill 2010 — Second Reading - Read a second time
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Food Importation (Bovine Meat Standards) Bill 2010 — Second Reading — Put the question to read a second time
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Rudd Government — Censure Motion
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2] and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] - Third Reading ...
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 96% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Third Reading - Read a third time
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 97% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 99% attendance
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Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 — Consideration of House of Representatives Message
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Motions - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Legislation - Defer question of third reading
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 86% attendance
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Health Insurance (Cataract Surgery) Determination 2009 — Motion for Disallowance
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] and related bills - Second Reading - Defer consideration
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
11 rebellions 92% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2009 — Motion for Disallowance
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Automotive Transformation Scheme Bill 2009; Acis Administration Amendment Bill 2009 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 and related bills - Second Reading - Read a second time
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures; No. 1) Bill 2009; Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures; No. 1) Bill 2009 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures; No. 1) Bill 2009; Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures; No. 1) Bill 2009 — Second Reading
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Nation-Building Funds Bill 2008 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Communications Fund
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 57% attendance
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Water Amendment Bill 2008 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Water Amendment Bill 2008 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Read a second time
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - Superannuation) Bill 2008 - In Committee - Start date
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Committees — Economics Committee; Extension of Time
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Safe Work Australia Bill 2008 — Consideration of House of Representatives Message
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Safe Work Australia Bill 2008; Safe Work Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2008 — In Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Committees — Fuel and Energy Committee; National Broadband Network Committee; Establishment
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Committees — Fuel and Energy Committee; National Broadband Network Committee; Establishment
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% 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
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 84% attendance
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National Fuelwatch (Empowering Consumers) Bill 2008 — Referral to Committees — Refer to Economics Committee
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% 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
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs Committee; Reference
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Committees — Agricultural and Related Industries Committee; State Government Financial Management Committee; Housing Affordability in Australia Committee; Establishment
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Local Government
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Bob Brown voted Yes
George Brandis voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Iraq
Bob Brown voted No
George Brandis voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance