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28th Feb 2019
Motions - Queensland Nickel - Suspend usual rules
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
Carol Brown and Tim Storer have voted the same way 75% of the time
Carol Brown
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since August 2005
Tim Storer
Former Independent Senator for SA February 2018 – July 2019
Between February 2018 and July 2019 Carol Brown and Tim Storer have voted in the same division 203 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 153 times. They have only voted differently 50 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
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing surveillance powers
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Always voted the same way on
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 153 times. They have only voted differently 50 times.
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edited 19th May 2023
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Corporate and Financial Sector Penalties) Bill 2018
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2018
Modern Slavery Bill 2018 - in Committee - Penalties for failing to comply
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2018
Modern Slavery Bill 2018 - in Committee - Forced marriage
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2019
Committees - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee - Refer to Committee
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2018
Motions - Outback Queensland Tourism - Acknowledge & commend Liberal National Coalition Government
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 28th Mar 2019
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee - Bring forward reporting date
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 9th Jun 2023
Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Immigration Detention - Remove children from Nauru
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - Governors-General Pension Scheme
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Climate Change - Direct Environment and Communications Legislation Committee
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2018
Motions - Nuclear Energy - Lift ban
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Superannuation - Gender gap + low income earners
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Right to Privacy - Protect
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Aged Care - Royal Commission and people with disability
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Lobbying to Political Parties - Change definition of "lobbyist"
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 21st Sep 2018
Motions - Lobbying to Political Parties - Change definition of "lobbyist"
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 19th Oct 2018
Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Put the question
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Motions - International Whaling - Send Environment Minister to IWC
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 5th Oct 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 26th Oct 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018 - in Committee - More certainty
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Motions - Coalition Government - No confidence
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 8th Feb 2019
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Social Security (Administration) (Trial of Cashless Welfare Arrangements) Determination 2018 - Disallow extension of trial
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2023
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Reporting of Gas Reserves) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Adjourn debate
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 7th Sep 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plans - Disallow
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Sep 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plan - Disallow
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 5th Oct 2018
Motions - Anning, Senator Fraser; Censure - Let vote happen
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Agree with amended bill
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Repayment thresholds
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 13th Jul 2018
Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2018 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Business - Rearrangement - New timetable
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Adjourn debate
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
Motions - Suspension of Standing Orders - Let Senator McKim introduce his motion
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 20th Jul 2018
Motions - Great Australian Bight - World Heritage Listing
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Let a vote happen
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Tax rates
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Low and Middle Income Tax Offset
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Note problems of bill
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 11th May 2018
Motions - Pensions and Benefits - Increase single rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 31st May 2018
Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Retroactive changes
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 31st May 2018
Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Retrospective application
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 31st May 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Marine Parks Network Management Plans - Disallow
Carol Brown voted Yes
Tim Storer voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Disallowance motions
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Speed things along
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Jul 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Put the question
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 27th Apr 2018
Communications Legislation Amendment (Online Content Services and Other Measures) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Gambling ads
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 20th Apr 2018
Motions - Dividend Imputation - Low income pensioners
Carol Brown voted No
Tim Storer voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance