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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 93% 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 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 child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- 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
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Trans rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- 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
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Speeding things along in Parliament (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
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
Voted moderately against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- 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 — Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; Consideration of Senate Message
David Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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Motions — Member for Chisholm
David Smith voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
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Bills — Migration Amendment (Streamlining Visa Processing) Bill 2019; Second Reading
David Smith voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% 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 |