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7th Nov 2014
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 71% attendance
David Fawcett
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2011
Rebels 0.1% of the time explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for SA, David Fawcett was Liberal Party Representative for Wakefield.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- 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 indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- 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
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- 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 almost always for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Senate electoral reform
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted generally for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
Voted almost always against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Building community climate change resilience
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted consistently against
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- 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
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- 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
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Stem cell research
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Fawcett has voted against the majority of their party twice since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Fawcett has taken part in 23 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
David Fawcett voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
David Fawcett voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
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 79% 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 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
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 89% 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 88% 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 86% 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 89% 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 92% 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 92% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 7th Oct 2014
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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edited 4 days ago
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Pensioner concession cards
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Suspension of benefits & entitlements
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% attendance
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Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Put the question
David Fawcett voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 64% 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
Compare David Fawcett with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Fawcett (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% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Ross Cadell | National Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |