edited
24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Marielle Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Marielle Smith
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 43% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Reducing personal income tax
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
What does this mean?Voted moderately for
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing marine conservation
- Privatising government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
Voted very strongly against
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Ending illegal logging
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Nuclear energy
- Restricting foreign ownership
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Marielle Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Marielle Smith has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Marielle Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Marielle Smith was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Marielle Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | Tim Ayres | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 92% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 92% | Catryna Bilyk | Tasmania | Australian Labor Party |
| 92% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 91% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |