edited
19th Jul 2019
Motions - Solar Energy - NSW Solar Energy eXchange Initiative
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
Lin Thorp and Sue Boyce have voted the same way 35% of the time
Lin Thorp
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania June 2012 – June 2014
Sue Boyce
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland April 2007 – June 2014
Between June 2012 and June 2014 Lin Thorp and Sue Boyce have voted in the same division 292 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 189 times. They have only voted the same 103 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 the same way on
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 189 times. They have only voted the same 103 times.
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Removing Re-approval and Re-registration) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Bills — Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014; Second Reading
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Bills — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2014; Third Reading
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Motions — Iraq
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Find other means to raise revenue
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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Committees — Education and Employment References Committee; Reference
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Regulations and Determinations — Australian Meat and Live—stock Industry (Export of Live—stock to Egypt) Repeal Order 2014 - Put the motion (for disallowance)
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Documents - World Heritage Committee - Protect the Fitzroy Delta, Keppel Bay, north Curtis Island and northern section of the reef
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Tax Laws Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014 and related bills - Second Reading
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 27th Dec 2014
Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Bentley blockade
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Motions — Family Payments
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
National Integrity Commission Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Put the question
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment Bill 2013 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Documents — Commonwealth Land: Sydney Harbour
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Documents — Asylum Seekers; Order for the Production of Documents
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Clean Energy Auction Revocation Determination 2014; Disallowance
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 27th Dec 2014
Motions - Lock the Gate Alliance - Act on concerns of the Alliance
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Motions - Coal Seam Gas - Landholders' right to refuse
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Motions - Live Animal Exports - Stop export until investigations completed
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Committees — Select Committee on Electronic Surveillance; Appointment
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Committees — Electoral Matters Committee; Reference
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 25th Feb 2016
Motions - Political Donations - Disclosure and ban on overseas donations
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 24th Jun 2016
Motions - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Reference - Surveillance
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Motions - Agriculture - Foreign ownership
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 27th Dec 2014
Motions - Agriculture - Coal seam gas wells
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Motions — Japan Natural Disasters
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Motions - Great Barrier Reef - Reject the Abbot Point coal port expansion proposal
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 9th Oct 2014
Motions - Wheat Exports - Reject takeover of GrainCorp by Archer Daniels Midland
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Social Security (Administration) (Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipient) Principles 2013; Disallowance
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Bills - Australian Education Bill 2013, Australian Education (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013; Second Reading
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Bills — Australian Jobs Bill 2013; Second Reading
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Commonwealth funded aged care
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 86% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
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Documents — Pollution Reduction Program; Order for the Production of Documents
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Lin Thorp voted Yes in this free vote
Sue Boyce voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2013 - In Committee - Extend protection
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2013 - In Committee - Owner consent
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2016
Motions - PRISM - Australia's vulnerability
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Media access
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 16th Jun 2016
Motions - International Development Assistance - Increase foreign aid budget to 0.7% of GNI
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Bills — Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Procedure) Bill 2012; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 55% attendance
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Bills — Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Procedure) Bill 2012; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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edited 14th Oct 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Migration Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 5) - Disallow
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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Regulations and Determinations — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Asylum Seekers - Right to work
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Clean Energy Amendment (International Emissions Trading and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Review financial assistance for coal-fired electricity generation
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Motions — International Energy Agency
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 25th Jan 2018
Motions - Endangered Species - Giant Australian cuttlefish
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 16th Jan 2015
Motions - Seismic Survey - Harm to marine wildlife
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs References Committee; Reference
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Higher Education Support Amendment (Streamlining and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Student start-up scholarship payments
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Adjustments
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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Motions — Middle East
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Adoption of amendments
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Ground water amendment
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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Bills — Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2012; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee; Reference
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 13th Feb 2015
Documents — Public Interest Disclosure Bill, Order for the Production of Documents
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 13th Feb 2015
Documents — National Data Retention Scheme; Order for the Production of Documents
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 13th Feb 2015
Documents — Data Retention Advice; Order for the Production of Documents
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
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Bills — Social Security Legislation Amendment (Fair Incentives to Work) Bill 2012; Second Reading
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 25th Jan 2018
Motions - Environmental Conservation - Keep responsibility in federal hands
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 25th Jan 2018
Motions - Endangered Species - Keep responsibility in federal hands
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2023
Environment Protection (Beverage Container Deposit and Recovery Scheme) Bill 2010 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 27th Sep 2017
Motions - Riley, Ms Vikki - Condolences
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 25th Jan 2018
Motions - Environment - Keep responsibility in federal hands
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Committees — Economics References Committee; Reference
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Republic of Nauru - Designate Nauru as regional processing country
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions — Republic of Nauru - Coalition policies
Lin Thorp voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 84% attendance
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edited 18th Mar 2015
Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 - In Committee - Agree to amendments introducing limitations on access and disclosure
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 27th Jan 2017
Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 52% attendance
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edited 27th Jan 2017
Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010 - In Committee - Acts by non-party country
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 27th Jan 2017
Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010 - In Committee - Ban investment
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin - 4000 gigalitres required
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Bills — Consumer Credit Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Bill 2012; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 20th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Sunset clause
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Independent annual review
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Protection and welfare arrangements
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - In Committee - Transfer to Australia after 12 months
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Aviation Transport Security Amendment (Screening) Bill 2012, Second Reading; Third Reading
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Bills — Aviation Transport Security Amendment (Screening) Bill 2012, Second Reading; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 - Leave schedule 1 as it is
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Stronger Futures Bills - Agree to Senator Ludlam's amendments
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Greens Amendment
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011 - Agree to Australian Greens amendment
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 - Agree to Australian Greens amendments reducing sunset clause periods
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 22nd Nov 2014
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 - Leave schedule 2 as it is
Lin Thorp voted Yes
Sue Boyce voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Bills — Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2012; in Committee
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 4th Jan 2015
Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2012 - Second Reading - Replace chaplaincy with counselling
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Motions — International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2023
Motions - Rio+20 Summit 2012 - Government explanation called for
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 22nd Sep 2016
Motions - Gun Control - Stregthen uniformity
Lin Thorp voted No
Sue Boyce voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 55% attendance