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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
Tony Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Tony Smith
Former Liberal Party Representative for Casey November 2021 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 52% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Representative for Casey, Tony Smith was Speaker Representative for Casey and Liberal Party Representative for Casey.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted generally for
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing funding for university education
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Tony Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Tony Smith has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Tony Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Tony Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Smith voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Tony Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Tony Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Tony Smith voted Yes
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
Tony Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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edited 19th Sep 2022
Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Tony Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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edited 26th Nov 2021
Electoral Legislation Amendment (Political Campaigners) Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tony Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2021
Electoral Legislation Amendment (Political Campaigners) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with bill as amended
Tony Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Electoral Legislation Amendment (Political Campaigners) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Registration requirements and financial disclosure
Tony Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Questions without Notice — National Security
Tony Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2]; Second Reading
Tony Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Motions — Prime Minister; Attempted Censure
Tony Smith voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Compare Tony Smith with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Tony 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% | Angie Bell | Liberal National Party Representative for Moncrieff |
| 100% | Pat Conaghan | National Party Representative for Cowper |
| 100% | Garth Hamilton | Liberal National Party Representative for Groom |
| 100% | Gavin Pearce | Liberal Party Representative for Braddon |
| 100% | James Stevens | Liberal Party Representative for Sturt |