Eric Abetz and Bill Heffernan have voted the same way 100% of the time
Eric Abetz
Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania February 1994 – May 2022
Bill Heffernan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW September 1996 – May 2016
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and May 2016 Eric Abetz and Bill Heffernan have voted in the same division 782 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 782 times. They have never voted differently.
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
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- 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 beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Public transport
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stem cell research
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees