Lisa Singh and Penny Wong have voted the same way 100% of the time
Lisa Singh
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania July 2011 – July 2019
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002
Between July 2011 and July 2019 Lisa Singh and Penny Wong have voted in the same division 552 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 552 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 carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Carbon farming
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- 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
- 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
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- 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 territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services