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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 0.088% of the time explain rebellions 82% attendance explain attendance
David Fawcett is Assistant Minister for Defence. Before being Liberal Party Senator for SA, David Fawcett was Liberal Party Representative for Wakefield.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- 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
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- 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 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 for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Outsourcing government services
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- 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
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Senate electoral reform
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- 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
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted strongly against
- A carbon price
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- 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
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- 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
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- 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 consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- 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
- Legalising euthanasia
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- 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
- Stem cell research
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- 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
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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Regulations and Determinations — Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019; Disallowance
David Fawcett was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Fawcett was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Fawcett was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% 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 |
| 97% | Bridget McKenzie | Victoria | National Party |
| 97% | James McGrath | Queensland | Liberal National Party |
| 97% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |