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26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Tony Smith voted No
Luke Howarth voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Tony Smith and Luke Howarth have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Tony Smith
Former Liberal Party Representative for Casey November 2021 – May 2022
Luke Howarth
Liberal Party Representative for Petrie since September 2013
Between September 2013 and May 2022 Tony Smith and Luke Howarth have voted in the same division 340 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 339 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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 339 times. They have only voted differently once.