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6th Oct 2024
Motions - Middle East - Adjourn debate
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Michelle Rowland and Rowan Ramsey have voted the same way 1% of the time
Michelle Rowland
Australian Labor Party Representative for Greenway since August 2010
Rowan Ramsey
Liberal Party Representative for Grey since November 2007
Since August 2010 Michelle Rowland and Rowan Ramsey have voted in the same division 2017 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1987 times. They have only voted the same 30 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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1987 times. They have only voted the same 30 times.
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2024
Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024 - Report from Federation Chamber - End native forest logging
Michelle Rowland voted No
Rowan Ramsey voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 7th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Increase speaking time for first Opposition speaker
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Israel - Condemns war crimes in Gaza
Michelle Rowland voted No
Rowan Ramsey voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 18th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
8 rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2023
Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Independent Review) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Appointments
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2023
Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Independent Review) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Transparency
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 43% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2023
Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Independent Review) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Migration & refugee settlement; cultural & linguistic diversity
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 11th Aug 2023
Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Independent Review) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Community and transparency
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 44% attendance
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edited 10th Feb 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Let a vote take place
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 83% attendance
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edited 16th Dec 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - No price freeze
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Public hearings and mandatory considerations
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 60% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - More ambitious targets needed
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Climate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - On new fossil fuel projects
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 87% attendance
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edited 12th Aug 2022
Public Sector Superannuation Salary Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 5th Aug 2022
Australian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Michelle Rowland voted No
Rowan Ramsey voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Michelle Rowland voted No
Rowan Ramsey voted No
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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Bills — Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Michelle Rowland voted No in this free vote
Rowan Ramsey voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Mental Health - Recommital of Vote - Greens amendment
Michelle Rowland voted Yes
Rowan Ramsey voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance