Mark Bishop and Michael Forshaw have voted the same way 100% of the time
Mark Bishop
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA July 1996 – June 2014
Michael Forshaw
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW May 1994 – June 2011
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and June 2011 Mark Bishop and Michael Forshaw have voted in the same division 700 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 700 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)
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- 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 competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Public transport
- 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)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees