Gavin Marshall and David Smith have voted the same way 100% of the time
Gavin Marshall
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria May 2016 – July 2019
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean since May 2019
Between May 2018 and April 2019 Gavin Marshall and David Smith have voted in the same division 240 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 240 times. They have never voted differently.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted the same way on
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining