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Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with amended bill
Dave Sharma voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
5 rebellions 82% attendance
Dave Sharma
Liberal Party Senator for NSW since November 2023
Rebels 0.3% of the time explain rebellions 75% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for NSW, Dave Sharma was Liberal Party Representative for Wentworth.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Nuclear energy
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing workplace protections
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Dave Sharma has voted against the majority of their party 3 times since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain rebellions
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Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students
Dave Sharma voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
5 rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students
Dave Sharma voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
5 rebellions 81% attendance
Free votes
Dave Sharma has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Sunset provision
Dave Sharma was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - in Committee - Increase wage rise to 25%
Dave Sharma was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - First Nations self-determination
Dave Sharma was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
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Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Condemn Government's research policies
Dave Sharma voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - For merit-based appointments
Dave Sharma voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 81% attendance
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Motions - Prime Minister - Don't let a vote happen
Dave Sharma voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Dave Sharma with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Dave Sharma (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Andrew Bragg | Liberal Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |