Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 79% attendance
David Van
Liberal Party Senator for Victoria since July 2019
Rebels 1% of the time explain rebellions 63% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Voted almost always against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Van has voted against the majority of their party 13 times since entering Parliament in July 2019. explain rebellions
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Bills — Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 80% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
David Van voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 82% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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Business — Consideration of Legislation
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance
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Bills — Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia's Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023; Second Reading
David Van voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 75% attendance
Free votes
David Van 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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Documents — Treasury; Order for the Production of Documents
David Van voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
David Van was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
David Van was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
Compare David Van with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Van (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% | Eric Abetz | Former Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Mathias Cormann | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Mitch Fifield | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Greg Mirabella | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Jim Molan | Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW |