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7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Stephen Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Stephen Smith
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Perth March 1993 – August 2013
Never rebelled explain rebellions 81% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stem cell research
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Stephen Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Stephen Smith has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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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
Stephen Smith voted No 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
Stephen Smith voted No 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
Stephen Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Stephen 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
Stephen 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
Stephen 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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edited 28th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Stephen Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Stephen Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Stephen Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Compare Stephen Smith with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Stephen 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% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Mark Butler | Australian Labor Party Representative for Hindmarsh |
| 100% | Jason Clare | Australian Labor Party Representative for Blaxland |
| 100% | Julie Collins | Australian Labor Party Representative for Franklin |
| 100% | Mark Dreyfus | Australian Labor Party Representative for Isaacs |