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25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Helen Polley and Murray Watt have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Murray Watt
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Since July 2016 Helen Polley and Murray Watt have voted in the same division 1410 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1407 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.
Always voted differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Capping gas prices
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- 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 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 15%
- 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
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- 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
- 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
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1407 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Helen Polley voted No in this free vote
Murray Watt voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance