David Johnston and Dean Smith have voted the same way 100% of the time
David Johnston
Former Liberal Party Senator for WA July 2002 – May 2016
Dean Smith
Liberal Party Senator for WA since May 2012
Between May 2012 and May 2016 David Johnston and Dean Smith have voted in the same division 594 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 594 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 carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining