Compare how Patrick Dodson and Anne Ruston voted on encouraging Australian-based industry
Patrick Dodson
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for WA April 2016 – January 2024
Anne Ruston
Liberal Party Senator for SA since September 2012
How they voted compared with each other and someone who agrees that the federal government should encourage Australian-based industry and secure the jobs these industries create by, for example, providing incentives for companies to stay in Australia (note that there are specific policies in respect to the timber, dairy, shipping, coal, and film & TV industries, which means that votes specific to those subjects are not included here)
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 encouraging Australian-based industry” which either Patrick Dodson or Anne Ruston could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Patrick Dodson and Anne Ruston 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 encouraging Australian-based industry” which either Patrick Dodson or Anne Ruston 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 "-".