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Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Fawcett voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 70% attendance
David Fawcett
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2011
Rebels 0.10% of the time explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for SA, David Fawcett was Liberal Party Representative for Wakefield.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted moderately for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal action on public housing
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stem cell research
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
David Fawcett has voted against the majority of their party 2 times since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Fawcett has taken part in 14 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 85% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Criminal Code Amendment (Impersonating a Commonwealth Body) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Interstate Road Transport Legislation (Repeal) Bill 2018 - Second Reading - Address emissions
David Fawcett voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 63% attendance
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Motions - Pensions and Benefits - Increase single rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance
David Fawcett voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Matters of Public Importance — Australia’s Future Prosperity
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Leader of the Opposition
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Leader of the Opposition
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Jo Lindgren | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 98% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 97% | James Paterson | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Bridget McKenzie | Victoria | National Party |