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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Marielle Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Marielle Smith
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 59% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Offshore oil mining
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- 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
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- 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
- Temporary protection visas
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
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 9 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Marielle Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 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
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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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edited 11th Feb 2022
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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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Marielle Smith voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Marielle Smith voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Marielle Smith voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% 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% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Jana Stewart | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |