edited
7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Glenn Sterle voted No in this free vote
Matt Thistlethwaite voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Glenn Sterle and Matt Thistlethwaite have voted the same way 99.8% of the time
Glenn Sterle
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2005
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
Between July 2011 and August 2013 Glenn Sterle and Matt Thistlethwaite have voted in the same division 574 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 573 times. They have only voted differently once.
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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- 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 the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- 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 whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 573 times. They have only voted differently once.