Don Farrell and Helen Polley have voted the same way 100% of the time
Don Farrell
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2016
Helen Polley
Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania since July 2005
Since July 2008 Don Farrell and Helen Polley have voted in the same division 2040 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 2040 times. They have never voted differently.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees