Stephen Conroy and Michael Forshaw have voted the same way 100% of the time
Stephen Conroy
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria April 1996 – September 2016
Michael Forshaw
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW May 1994 – June 2011
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and June 2011 Stephen Conroy and Michael Forshaw have voted in the same division 402 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 402 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export