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13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Indigenous people and SDLAM project withdrawal
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 79% attendance
David Van
Independent Senator for Victoria since June 2023
Rebels 1% of the time explain rebellions 55% attendance explain attendance
Before being Independent Senator for Victoria, David Van was Liberal Party Senator for Victoria.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Privatising certain government services
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing workplace protections
- Procedural fairness
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal action on public housing
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- 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 eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- 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 workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Van has voted against the majority of their party 13 times since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Complementary measures
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Held water and socio-economic outcomes
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 13th Dec 2023
Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 - Keep bill items as they are; held environmental water
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 31st May 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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edited 31st May 2024
Business - Rearrangement - Suspend standing orders
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 31st May 2024
Business - Rearrangement - Put the question
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023 and five others
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Move another motion immediately
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Put the question
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Suspend the usual procedural rules
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 14th Jun 2024
Business - Consideration of Legislation - Put the question
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 15th Feb 2024
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 76% attendance
Free votes
David Van has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
David Van was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
David Van was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
David Van was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
David Van was absent
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 25th Aug 2023
Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023 and two others - Second Reading - Condemn
David Van was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 46% attendance
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edited 22nd Sep 2023
Business - Rearrangement - Suspend the usual procedural rules
David Van was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
Compare David Van with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Van (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Eric Abetz | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Mathias Cormann | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mitch Fifield | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Greg Mirabella | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Jim Molan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |