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Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia

People who support this policy believe that people seeking asylum in Australia, who arrive without a visa and particularly those who arrive by boat, should be held offshore in an Australian territory like Christmas Island while their application is processed (See the policy "For regional processing of asylum seekers" for more on processing asylum claims in other countries, like Nauru).

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How each party's members voted

House of RepresentativesSenate

Each bar is 100% of a party's current members in the House of Representatives whom They Vote For You places in one of its seven agreement groups for this policy (its own categories, shown as published). Bars show percentages of members, not vote totals; the number beside each bar is how many members that is. Members They Vote For You says haven't cast enough votes on the policy are counted separately, not in the bars.

  • Consistently against
  • Almost always against
  • Generally against
  • Mixture
  • Generally for
  • Almost always for
  • Consistently for
Labor
1 member+1 not enough votes
Liberal
0 members+1 not enough votes
One Nation
0 members+1 not enough votes
Party breakdown as a table (number of members in each group)
PartyConsistently againstAlmost always againstGenerally againstMixtureGenerally forAlmost always forConsistently forNot enough votesMembers in bar
Labor000100011
Liberal000000010
One Nation000000010
All 4 members, by agreement
MemberPartyPositionAgreement
Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith)LaborNot enough votes to say100%
Ben Small (Forrest)LiberalNot enough votes to say100%
Barnaby Joyce (New England)One NationNot enough votes to say92%
Anne Urquhart (Braddon)LaborVoted a mixture of for and against50%

Votes that make up this policy

The policy position on each vote. Strong votes count more towards a member's agreement score.