Compare how Simon Birmingham and Matt Thistlethwaite voted on increasing or removing the Government debt limit
Simon Birmingham
Liberal Party Senator for SA since May 2007
Matt Thistlethwaite
Australian Labor Party Representative for Kingsford Smith since September 2013
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should increase the limit on the total amount of Commonwealth stock and securities that may be on issue at any time (known as the 'debt limit') or remove the limit altogether
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 or removing the Government debt limit” which either Simon Birmingham or Matt Thistlethwaite could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Simon Birmingham and Matt Thistlethwaite 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 "-".
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Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing or removing the Government debt limit” which either Simon Birmingham or Matt Thistlethwaite 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 "-".