edited
7th Nov 2014
Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Dean Smith voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a large majority
7 rebellions 71% attendance
Dean Smith
Liberal Party Senator for WA since May 2012
Rebels 0.076% of the time explain rebellions 90% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Senate electoral reform
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
Voted strongly for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Offshore oil mining
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted moderately for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Voted moderately against
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Reducing air pollution
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Legalising pepper spray
- Pill testing
- Public transport
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Refugee family reunification
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Has never voted on
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Investing in climate science
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Dean Smith has voted against the majority of their party 2 times since entering Parliament in May 2012. explain rebellions
Free votes
Dean Smith has taken part in 13 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2012. explain “Free Votes”
-
edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
-
edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Dean Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Dean Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
-
edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Dean Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
-
edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Dean Smith voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
-
Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Dean Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Dean Smith voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
-
Motions — Nbn Co
Dean Smith voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 99% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Gerard Rennick | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 99% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |