Kerry O'Brien and Robert Ray have voted the same way 100% of the time
Kerry O'Brien
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania September 1996 – June 2011
Robert Ray
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria July 1981 – May 2008
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and May 2008 Kerry O'Brien and Robert Ray have voted in the same division 347 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 347 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 citizenship test
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export