edited
7th Oct 2014
Committees - Fuel and Energy Committee - Resolution of Appointment
Richard Colbeck voted Yes
Helen Coonan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 88% attendance
Richard Colbeck and Helen Coonan have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Richard Colbeck
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since February 2018
Helen Coonan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW July 1996 – August 2011
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and August 2011 Richard Colbeck and Helen Coonan have voted in the same division 487 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 486 times. They have only voted differently once.
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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 486 times. They have only voted differently once.