edited
18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
Tony Smith and Anthony Byrne have voted the same way 1% of the time
Tony Smith
Former Liberal Party Representative for Casey November 2021 – May 2022
Anthony Byrne
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Holt November 1999 – May 2022
Between February 2006 (when our voting records begin) and May 2022 Tony Smith and Anthony Byrne have voted in the same division 1364 times.
In divisions they have voted differently 1352 times. They have only voted the same 12 times.
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 the same way on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted differently on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted the same
In divisions they have voted differently 1352 times. They have only voted the same 12 times.
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 18th Feb 2022
Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Impact on Tasmania
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 68% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Tony Smith voted No
Anthony Byrne voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Smith voted No
Anthony Byrne voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010 — Second Reading
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
2 rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Tony Smith voted Yes
Anthony Byrne voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% 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
Anthony Byrne 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
Anthony Byrne 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
Anthony Byrne voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance