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2nd Dec 2021
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Progress reports
Marielle Smith was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Marielle Smith
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 32% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- 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 Paris Climate Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted almost always for
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Transgender rights
Voted generally for
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
Has never 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
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- 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 under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- 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
- 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
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
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
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Schedule 2
Marielle Smith was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Consultation issues
Marielle Smith was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 40% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 91% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party |
| 90% | Karen Grogan | Australian Labor Party |
| 89% | Tony Sheldon | Australian Labor Party |
| 89% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party |
| 88% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party |