edited
3rd Nov 2023
Motions - Gender Dysphoria - Treating gender diverse children
Ben Small voted Yes
Jane Hume voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
6 rebellions 76% attendance
Ben Small and Jane Hume have voted the same way 99.6% of the time
Ben Small
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA November 2020 – May 2022
Jane Hume
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since July 2016
Between November 2020 and May 2022 Ben Small and Jane Hume have voted in the same division 447 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 445 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- 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
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- 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
- 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 445 times. They have only voted differently twice.