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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 89% attendance explain attendance
Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean, David Smith was Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Offshore oil mining
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Nuclear energy
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Transgender rights
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- 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 pepper spray
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
David Smith has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
David Smith has taken part in 3 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2018. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - No destruction of zygote or embryo
David Smith voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
David Smith voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
David Smith voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
David Smith voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
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edited 12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
David Smith voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare David Smith with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as David Smith (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% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |