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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% 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
- Legalising euthanasia
- 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
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Increasing marine conservation
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
Voted moderately against
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- 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
- 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
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- 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
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Third Reading - Speeding things along
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% 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% | Anne Urquhart | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Malarndirri McCarthy | NT | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |