Jacinta Collins and Helen Polley have voted the same way 100% of the time

Jacinta Collins
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria May 2008 – February 2019

Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Between May 2008 and February 2019 Jacinta Collins and Helen Polley have voted in the same division 1619 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1619 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 character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees