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26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Darren Chester voted Yes
Tony Smith voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Darren Chester and Tony Smith have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Darren Chester
National Party Representative for Gippsland since June 2008
Tony Smith
Former Liberal Party Representative for Casey November 2021 – May 2022
Between June 2008 and May 2022 Darren Chester and Tony Smith have voted in the same division 1015 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1014 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
- 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 Nauru
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- 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 legal protections for LGBTI people
- 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 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
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- 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
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1014 times. They have only voted differently once.