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21st Aug 2022
Committees - Senators' Interests Committee - Reference
Jess Walsh voted Yes, rebelling against the Australian Labor Party
Patrick Dodson voted No
Not passed by a small majority
2 rebellions 87% attendance
Jess Walsh and Patrick Dodson have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Jess Walsh
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since July 2019
Patrick Dodson
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
Between July 2019 and January 2024 Jess Walsh and Patrick Dodson have voted in the same division 594 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 593 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- 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
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- 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
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- 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 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 593 times. They have only voted differently once.