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Bills - Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills; Second Reading
Bob Brown voted Yes
Sean Edwards voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Bob Brown and Sean Edwards have voted the same way 3% of the time
Bob Brown
Former Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania July 1996 – June 2012
Sean Edwards
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA July 2011 – May 2016
Between July 2011 and June 2012 Bob Brown and Sean Edwards have voted in the same division 258 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 250 times. They have only voted the same 8 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.
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
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 250 times. They have only voted the same 8 times.
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Motions - Wind Farms - Act on the Community Affairs References Committee's recommendations
Bob Brown voted Yes
Sean Edwards voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Bills — Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2011; in Committee
Bob Brown voted No
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 51% 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...
Bob Brown voted No
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 92% 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...
Bob Brown voted No
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — National Health Reform Amendment (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) Bill 2011; in Committee
Bob Brown voted No
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Motions — Asylum Seekers
Bob Brown voted Yes
Sean Edwards 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
Bob Brown voted No
Sean Edwards voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance