Compare how Matt Thistlethwaite and Louise Pratt voted on increasing surveillance powers
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
Louise Pratt
Australian Labor Party Senator for WA since July 2016
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should introduce legislation to increase the powers of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to intercept and retain communications related to persons of interest. These agencies include the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Now this is where it gets a bit tricky… Two people might vote the same way on votes they both attended, so their votes are 100% in agreement. They might also have voted in a way we’d describe differently when looking at all of one person's votes. If the other person didn’t or couldn’t have attended those votes we leave those out of the comparison. Because that just wouldn’t be fair now, would it?
Most important divisions relevant to this policy
These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing surveillance powers” which either Matt Thistlethwaite or Louise Pratt could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Matt Thistlethwaite and Louise Pratt on this policy. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing surveillance powers” which either Matt Thistlethwaite or Louise Pratt could have attended. Where a person could not have attended a division because they were not a member of parliament at the time (or in the wrong house) it is marked as "-".