Compare how Murray Watt and Patrick Dodson voted on stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Murray Watt
Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland since July 2016
Patrick Dodson
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should tighten the ministerial code of conduct to stop former ministers from taking up lobbying positions - including in-house positions - within five years of leaving Parliament
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 stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years” which either Murray Watt or Patrick Dodson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Murray Watt and Patrick Dodson 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 | Murray Watt | Patrick Dodson | Supporters vote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years” which either Murray Watt or Patrick Dodson 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 | Murray Watt | Patrick Dodson | Supporters vote |
|---|---|---|---|
22nd Jul 2019, 3:55 PM – Senate Committees - Finance and Public Administration References Committee - Reference |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
19th Sep 2018, 3:58 PM – Senate Motions - Lobbying to Political Parties - Change definition of "lobbyist" |
No | absent | Yes |
19th Sep 2018, 3:54 PM – Senate Motions - Lobbying to Political Parties - Change definition of "lobbyist" |
No | absent | Yes |
18th Sep 2018, 4:58 PM – Senate Motions - Ministerial Conduct - Tighten |
No | No | Yes |