Penny Wong and David Smith have voted the same way 100% of the time
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2002
David Smith
Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean since May 2019
Between May 2018 and April 2019 Penny Wong and David Smith have voted in the same division 122 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 122 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
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Self-governance of the territories
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies