edited
28th Feb 2019
Documents - Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots - Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Michaelia Cash and Brian Burston have voted the same way 83% of the time
Michaelia Cash
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2008
Brian Burston
Former United Australia Party Senator for NSW June 2018 – July 2019
Between July 2016 and July 2019 Michaelia Cash and Brian Burston have voted in the same division 520 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 433 times. They have only voted differently 87 times.
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
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Always voted the same way on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Pill testing
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 433 times. They have only voted differently 87 times.
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edited 14th Mar 2019
Motions - Disability Services - Establish a royal commission
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 21st Mar 2019
Committees - Selection of Bills Committee - Refer to Economics Legislation Committee
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 28th Feb 2019
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Reform needed
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 14th Dec 2018
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Review operation of amendments
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Recovering legal aid
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Limiting access to Legal Aid
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 14th Feb 2019
Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Release statutory review
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
-
edited 30th Nov 2018
Motions - Veterans - Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB)
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
-
edited 24th Jan 2019
A Fair Go for Australians in Trade Bill 2018 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Jan 2019
A Fair Go for Australians in Trade Bill 2018 [No. 2] - Second Reading - Put the question
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 25th Jan 2019
Customs Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 8th Nov 2018
Motions - Infrastructure - Construct the Bradfield Scheme
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 71% attendance
-
edited 4th Oct 2018
Motions - Great Barrier Reef Foundation - Table due diligence report
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
-
edited 7th Jul 2023
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and two others - Reference to Committee - For inquiry
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 20th Apr 2018
Motions - World Oral Health Day - Medicare-funded dental care
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Documents - Federal Circuit Court and Family Court of Australia - Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 14th Jul 2023
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Declared program participants
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 21st Jul 2023
Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2017-2018, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2017-2018 - in Committee - Potential constitutional issue
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 21st Jul 2023
Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2018 and another - in Committee - Labour market testing condition
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 3rd Aug 2018
Enhancing Online Safety (Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Outdoor places and sketches
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 4th May 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Due Diligence Improvements) Regulations 2017 - Disallow
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Taxation - Cuts for Australian companies
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Environment - Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2017
Motions - Taxation - Automotive Industry
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
-
edited 8th Dec 2017
Motions - Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Water and Agriculture Portfolios
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 71% attendance
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edited 8th Dec 2017
Motions - Aged Care - For nationally-consistent regulation
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2017
Fair Work Amendment (Repeal of 4 Yearly Reviews and Other Measures) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Penalty rates
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance
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edited 21st May 2019
Motions - Animal Welfare - Lift standards
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
-
edited 17th Dec 2017
Motions - Medicare - Condemns Government
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
-
edited 26th Jan 2018
Motions - Renewable Energy - Against target and subsidies
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 26th Jan 2018
Motions - Energy - Reregulate to control increase in electricity prices
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 31st May 2019
Documents - Defence Procurement - Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 20th Oct 2023
Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Robocall amendments
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 58% attendance
-
edited 20th Oct 2023
Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - in Committee - Misleading statements
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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edited 21st Jan 2018
Motions - National Threatened Species Day - Government support for research & conservation
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 20th Oct 2023
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment (Make Electricity Gst Free) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 17th Nov 2017
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee - Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
-
edited 24th May 2019
Motions - Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination - Williamtown Investigation Area
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
-
edited 17th Nov 2017
Motions - Parliamentary Representation - Qualifications of Senators
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 3rd Sep 2017
Documents - Solicitor-General's Advice - Produce the documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017, Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Duty Harmonisation) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Motions - National Security - Consistency in airport mandatory screening
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
-
edited 3rd Nov 2023
Motions - Suspension of Standing Orders - Public dental care
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 17th Nov 2023
Committees - Commonwealth Bank of Australia - Withhold bonuses
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
-
edited 17th Nov 2017
Committees - Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee - Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 17th Nov 2023
Committees - Homelessness - Long term, non-punitive plans
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 13th Aug 2017
Committees - Murray-Darling Basin - Independent national judicial inquiry
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 30th Jun 2017
Motions - Asylum Seekers - Withdraw from Refugee Convention
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 8th Jul 2017
Major Bank Levy Bill 2017, Treasury Laws Amendment (Major Bank Levy) Bill 2017 - in Committee - International banks
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
-
edited 9th Jul 2017
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Criminalise "revenge porn"
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Banking and Financial Services Commission of Inquiry Bill 2017; Second Reading
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Influence of Foreign Agents - Royal Commission
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
-
edited 13th Jul 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Narcotic Drugs) Regulation 2016 - Disallow
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 13th Jul 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Narcotic Drugs) Regulation 2016 - Vote on disallowance again
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 13th Jul 2017
Regulations and Determinations - Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Narcotic Drugs) Regulation 2016 - Disallow
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 13th May 2017
Motions - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Reduce funding
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Matters of Urgency — Workplace Relations
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016; in Committee
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
-
edited 14th Apr 2017
Motions - Child Sexual Abuse - List of perpetrators
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
-
edited 6th Apr 2017
Motions - Parliamentarians' Entitlements - Do not increase remuneration until in surplus
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; in Committee
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Bills — Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016; Second Reading
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2017
Motions - Imports - Anti-dumping system
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
edited 24th May 2019
Motions - Parliamentarians' Entitlements - Commit to spending on electorate
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Committees — Senators' Interests Committee; Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Criminal Code Amendment (Firearms Trafficking) Bill 2016; in Committee
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Bills — Criminal Code Amendment (Firearms Trafficking) Bill 2016; in Committee
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Documents — Defence Procurement; Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Committees — Finance and Public Administration References Committee; Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Vet Student Loans Bill 2016, Vet Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, Vet Student Loans (Charges) Bill 2016; in Committee
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Bills — Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013, Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013; in Commi...
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 6th Jun 2019
Motions - Australian of the Year - Remove General Morrison
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Committees — Economics References Committee; Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
-
edited 25th Nov 2016
Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016 and related bills - in Committee - Reduce tax rate from 19% to 10.5%
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2016
Regulations and Determinations - Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Shotguns and Shotgun Magazines) Regulation 2016 - Disallowance
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs References Committee; Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
-
edited 18th Jan 2019
Documents - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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Documents — Trade; Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 8th Oct 2016
National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and another - Refer to Committee
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Committees — Community Affairs References Committee; Reference
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 8th Oct 2016
Business - Consideration of Legislation - National cancer screening bills
Michaelia Cash voted Yes
Brian Burston voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
-
edited 17th Sep 2016
Motions - Census - Do not fine
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
-
edited 17th Sep 2016
Motions - Gambling - Against gambling advertising
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Documents — Australian Statistician; Order for the Production of Documents
Michaelia Cash voted No
Brian Burston voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance