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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 71% attendance
David Fawcett
Liberal Party Senator for SA since July 2011
Rebels 0.069% of the time explain rebellions 77% 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 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
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- 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 parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political interference in research funding
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- 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 strongly 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 investment in the coal industry
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Senate electoral reform
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- 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
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- 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
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Building community climate change resilience
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- 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 Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- 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 eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- 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 political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- 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
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stem cell research
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- 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
Has never voted on
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- The right to protest
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 16 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
David Fawcett was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 34% attendance
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Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
David Fawcett was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
David Fawcett was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% 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 |
| 96% | Bridget McKenzie | Victoria | National Party |
| 96% | Barry O'Sullivan | Queensland | National Party |
| 96% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 96% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |