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15th Nov 2019
Motions - Water Infrastructure - Bradfield-type scheme
Eric Abetz voted Yes
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Eric Abetz and Scott Ryan have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Eric Abetz
Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania February 1994 – May 2022
Scott Ryan
Former President Senator for Victoria November 2017 – October 2021
Between July 2008 and October 2021 Eric Abetz and Scott Ryan have voted in the same division 1729 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1726 times. They have only voted differently 3 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 the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1726 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Eric Abetz voted Yes in this free vote
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Eric Abetz voted No in this free vote
Scott Ryan voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance