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6th Oct 2024
Motions - Middle East - Adjourn debate
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Keith Pitt and Lisa Chesters have voted the same way 3% of the time
Keith Pitt
National Party Representative for Hinkler since September 2013
Lisa Chesters
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bendigo since September 2013
Since September 2013 Keith Pitt and Lisa Chesters have voted in the same division 1468 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1428 times. They have only voted the same 40 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
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A minerals resource rent tax
- 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 mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- 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)
- Criminalising wage theft
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Having a referendum on whether to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- 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
- Introducing digital ID
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- 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
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- 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
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1428 times. They have only voted the same 40 times.
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edited 4th Jul 2024
Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024 and two others - Second Reading - Criticism of bills
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Statements — Personal Explanation
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters 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
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 3rd Jul 2024
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 56% attendance
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edited 23rd Jul 2024
Motions - Climate Change - Suspend the rules to let another motion be moved
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 73% attendance
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edited 10th Jan 2025
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 27 days ago
Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 21 days ago
Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No. 1) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Migrant and refugee applicants
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 45% attendance
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edited 7th Mar 2024
Motions - Middle East: Occupied Palestinian Territories - Let another vote take place
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 55% attendance
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edited 29th Feb 2024
Motions - Middle East - Let another vote take place
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 7th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Increase speaking time for first Opposition speaker
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Jun 2024
Business - Rearrangement - Put the question
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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edited 4th Feb 2024
Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 - Report from Federation Chamber - Close loopholes
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 26th Jan 2024
Motions - Israel - Condemns war crimes in Gaza
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 1st Dec 2023
Motions - Whistleblower Protection - Let a vote happen
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 65% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2023
Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with the bill
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 53% attendance
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edited 10th Mar 2023
Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Misleading and deceptive advertising
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 52% attendance
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edited 17th Feb 2023
Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Exception
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 44% attendance
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edited 10th Feb 2023
Regulations and Determinations - Instrument of Designation of the Republic of Nauru as a Regional Processing Country
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Budget review timing and funding recommendations
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 43% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Pork barrelling and corrupt conduct definition
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 48% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Public hearings and mandatory considerations
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 60% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Objects of bill
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 51% attendance
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edited 11th Nov 2022
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Equal-access approach
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 30th Sep 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 2) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Inequality
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% 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
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters 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
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters 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
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters 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
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters 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
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Oct 2019
Motions - Casinos - Suspend the usual rules
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 69% attendance
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edited 22nd Aug 2019
Committees - Crown Casino Committee - Appointment
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Keith Pitt voted No
Lisa Chesters voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 21st Dec 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-Sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Keith Pitt voted Yes
Lisa Chesters voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance