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16th Jun 2015
Motions — Housing Affordability
Christopher Back voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Dean Smith voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 77% attendance
Christopher Back and Dean Smith have voted the same way 99.9% of the time
Christopher Back
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA March 2009 – July 2017
Dean Smith
Liberal Party Senator for WA since May 2012
Between May 2012 and July 2017 Christopher Back and Dean Smith have voted in the same division 1115 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1114 times. They have only voted differently once.
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 carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal action on public housing
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1114 times. They have only voted differently once.