Compare how Penny Wong and Dio Wang voted on tighter means testing of family payments
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002
Dio Wang
Former Palmer United Party Senator for WA July 2014 – May 2016
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should target family payments to low and moderate income households, to the exclusion of higher income households.
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 tighter means testing of family payments ” which either Penny Wong or Dio Wang could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Penny Wong and Dio Wang 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 | Penny Wong | Dio Wang | Supporters vote |
|---|---|---|---|
4th Dec 2014, 10:42 AM – Senate Family Tax Benefit (Tighter Income Test) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea |
absent | No | Yes |
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for tighter means testing of family payments ” which either Penny Wong or Dio Wang 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 | Penny Wong | Dio Wang | Supporters vote |
|---|---|---|---|
22nd Mar 2017, 12:04 AM – Senate Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill |
No | - | Yes |
17th Nov 2014, 11:40 AM – Senate Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 6) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with the main idea of the bill |
Yes | absent | Yes |
2nd Sep 2014, 2:17 PM – Senate Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Read a third time |
No | Yes | Yes |
2nd Sep 2014, 1:51 PM – Senate Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014 — Reference to Committee — Adjustments to the changes made by the bill |
absent | Yes | Yes |