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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Matt Keogh voted No in this free vote
David Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Matt Keogh and David Smith have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Matt Keogh
Australian Labor Party Representative for Burt since July 2016
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean since May 2019
Since May 2019 Matt Keogh and David Smith have voted in the same division 829 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 828 times. They have only voted differently once.
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 differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- 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 tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 828 times. They have only voted differently once.