Matt Thistlethwaite and Anne McEwen have voted the same way 100% of the time
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
Anne McEwen
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for SA July 2005 – May 2016
Between July 2011 and August 2013 Matt Thistlethwaite and Anne McEwen have voted in the same division 593 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 593 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
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan