Compare how Brett Mason and Kim Carr voted on increasing the diversity of media ownership

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Brett Mason

Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland July 1999 – April 2015

Voted consistently against increasing the diversity of media ownership
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Kim Carr

Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria April 1993 – May 2022

Voted generally for increasing the diversity of media ownership

How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should use regulation to increase the diversity of publishers and broadcasters in Australia's media industry by, for example, setting a threshold for the maximum market share of any one company.

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 the diversity of media ownership” which either Brett Mason or Kim Carr could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Brett Mason and Kim Carr 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 "-".

Division Brett Mason Kim Carr Supporters vote

14th Sep 2017, 5:48 PM – Senate Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills

- absent No

14th Sep 2017, 5:44 PM – Senate Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Agree with bills

- absent No

14th Sep 2017, 5:07 PM – Senate Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - 2-out-of-3 cross media rule

- absent No

14th Sep 2017, 5:03 PM – Senate Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - 2-out-of-3 cross media rule

- absent Yes

13th Sep 2017, 10:24 PM – Senate Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bills' main idea

- No No

11th Oct 2006, 6:13 PM – Senate Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 and three related bill - Second Reading - Agree with the main idea of the bills

Yes No No

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing the diversity of media ownership” which either Brett Mason or Kim Carr 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 "-".

Division Brett Mason Kim Carr Supporters vote

23rd Feb 2021, 7:07 PM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Media diversity and funding

- No Yes

9th May 2018, 7:02 PM – Senate Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Media diversity

- Yes Yes