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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Marielle Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Marielle Smith
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 33% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 7 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Marielle Smith voted No 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 - Introduce threshold
Marielle Smith 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
Marielle Smith voted Yes 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
Marielle Smith voted No 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
Marielle Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Marielle Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Marielle Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Marielle Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Marielle Smith was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Marielle Smith with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Marielle Smith (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% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Alex Gallacher | Former Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |