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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
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT May 2018 – April 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT, David Smith was Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore oil mining
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
Voted moderately against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing political transparency
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Political interference in research funding
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- 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
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
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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Motions — Senate Debate
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Motions — Senate Debate
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% 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% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |