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12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Ben Small voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
Ben Small
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA November 2020 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- 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
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Ben Small has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in November 2020. explain rebellions
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 - Acknowledge crisis
Ben Small voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Ben Small voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Ben Small with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Ben Small (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |