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24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
David Smith voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean, David Smith was Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Legalising euthanasia
- Offshore oil mining
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Smith has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare David Smith with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Smith (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% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |
| 100% | Terri Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Griffith |