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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
David Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT since May 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 92% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political interference in research funding
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
David Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Smith has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018; in Committee
David Smith voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
David Smith voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |