edited
24th Aug 2018
Motions - Migration - New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
Jonathon Duniam voted No
Ian Macdonald voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 63% attendance
Jonathon Duniam and Ian Macdonald have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Jonathon Duniam
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2016
Ian Macdonald
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland July 1990 – July 2019
Between July 2016 and July 2019 Jonathon Duniam and Ian Macdonald have voted in the same division 590 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 588 times. They have only voted differently twice.
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
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- 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 price of tobacco
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- 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 Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 588 times. They have only voted differently twice.