Scott Ryan and Ben Small have voted the same way 100% of the time

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

Ben Small
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA November 2020 – May 2022
Between November 2020 and October 2021 Scott Ryan and Ben Small have voted in the same division 314 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 314 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining