Scott Ryan and Michael Ronaldson have voted the same way 100% of the time

Scott Ryan
Former President Senator for Victoria November 2017 – October 2021

Michael Ronaldson
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria July 2005 – February 2016
Between July 2008 and February 2016 Scott Ryan and Michael Ronaldson have voted in the same division 894 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 894 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 Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- 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 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
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- 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
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees