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23rd Sep 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 - Consideration in Detail - Maintain Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding
Tony Abbott voted No
Mike Freelander voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
Tony Abbott and Mike Freelander have voted the same way 0.2% of the time
Tony Abbott
Former Liberal Party Representative for Warringah March 1994 – May 2019
Mike Freelander
Australian Labor Party Representative for Macarthur since July 2016
Between July 2016 and May 2019 Tony Abbott and Mike Freelander have voted in the same division 439 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 438 times. They have only voted the same once.
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
Always voted differently on
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- 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 trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 438 times. They have only voted the same once.