edited
18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 64% attendance
Craig Kelly and Chris Bowen have voted the same way 1% of the time
Craig Kelly
Former United Australia Party Representative for Hughes August 2021 – May 2022
Chris Bowen
Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon since August 2010
Between August 2010 and May 2022 Craig Kelly and Chris Bowen have voted in the same division 1879 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1852 times. They have only voted the same 27 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
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 plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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 state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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 Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- 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
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1852 times. They have only voted the same 27 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen 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
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen 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
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 26th Nov 2021
Business - Rearrangement - Let a vote on the integrity commission take place
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 86% attendance
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edited 26th Aug 2022
Business - Rearrangement - Don't disagree with motion
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance
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edited 26th Nov 2021
Corporations Amendment (Improving Outcomes for Litigation Funding Participants) Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2021
Motions - Commonwealth Integrity Commission - Speed things along
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 10th Dec 2021
Motions - Commonwealth Integrity Commission - Don't let a vote happen
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2021
Motions - Commonwealth Integrity Commission - Stop MP Dreyfus from speaking
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 17th Dec 2021
Motions - Commonwealth Integrity Commission - Stop MP Albanese from speaking
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 4th Mar 2022
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree and pass the bill
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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edited 1st Oct 2021
Resolutions of the Senate - Jobkeeper Payment - Immediately consider Senate Message
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 12th Jun 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 12th Jun 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Labor amendments
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 12th Jun 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - "Best financial interests" definition
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 12th Jun 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Commencement date
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 12th Jun 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 15th Oct 2021
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2020-2021 - Report from Federation Chamber - Don't omit text
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 15th Oct 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Keep text unchanged
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 18th Oct 2019
Motions - Casinos - Suspend the usual rules
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen 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
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% 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
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Motions — Murray-Darling Basin Plan; Disallowance
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No
Not passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 67% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Craig Kelly voted No
Chris Bowen voted No in this free vote
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
Craig Kelly voted Yes
Chris Bowen voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 85% attendance