edited
15th Nov 2019
Motions - Water Infrastructure - Bradfield-type scheme
James Paterson voted Yes
Scott Ryan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
James Paterson and Scott Ryan have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
James Paterson
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since March 2016
Scott Ryan
Former President Senator for Victoria November 2017 – October 2021
Between March 2016 and October 2021 James Paterson and Scott Ryan have voted in the same division 1232 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1231 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
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1231 times. They have only voted differently once.