Compare how Nick McKim and Mitch Fifield voted on making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
![Photo of Nick McKim](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10841.jpg)
Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania since August 2015
![Photo of Mitch Fifield](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/images/mpsL/10224.jpg)
Mitch Fifield
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria March 2004 – September 2019
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should make the cashless debit card program (a program where welfare payments are put onto controlled debit cards, also known as Indue cards, for restricted use) voluntary so that people are not forced to participate in it
Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?
Most important divisions relevant to this policy
These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory” which either Nick McKim or Mitch Fifield could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Nick McKim and Mitch Fifield on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
Division | Nick McKim | Mitch Fifield | Supporters vote |
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1st Aug 2019, 10:12 AM – Senate Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - in Committee - Make voluntary |
Yes | No | Yes |
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory” which either Nick McKim or Mitch Fifield could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
Division | Nick McKim | Mitch Fifield | Supporters vote |
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31st Jul 2019, 11:30 AM – Senate Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Stop being compulsory |
Yes | absent | Yes |