edited
7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Alan Eggleston voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Anne Ruston voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Alan Eggleston and Anne Ruston have voted the same way 99% of the time
Alan Eggleston
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 1996 – June 2014
Anne Ruston
Liberal Party Senator for SA since September 2012
Between September 2012 and June 2014 Alan Eggleston and Anne Ruston have voted in the same division 266 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 264 times. They have only voted differently twice.
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 differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 264 times. They have only voted differently twice.