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Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reference to Committee
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Dean Smith and Gerard Rennick have voted the same way 99% of the time
Dean Smith
Liberal Party Senator for WA since May 2012
Gerard Rennick
Independent Senator for Queensland since August 2024
Since July 2019 Dean Smith and Gerard Rennick have voted in the same division 1439 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 1425 times. They have only voted differently 14 times.
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.
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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 protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 1425 times. They have only voted differently 14 times.
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edited 13th Oct 2024
Documents - Department of Industry, Science and Resources; Order for the Production of Documents - Laminaria and Carollinea oil fields
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance
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edited 17th Aug 2024
Covid-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Put the question
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 76% attendance
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edited 4th Feb 2024
Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 - in Committee - One Nation's amendments
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 29th Sep 2023
Documents - Australian Secret Intelligence Service - Order for the Production of Documents
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a modest majority
1 rebellion 57% attendance
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edited 30th Nov 2023
Committees - Community Affairs References Committee; Reference - Gender diverse children and young people
Dean Smith voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Gerard Rennick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
5 rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 4th Aug 2023
Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Dean Smith voted Yes
Gerard Rennick voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a modest majority
7 rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 8th Dec 2022
Committees - Community Affairs References Committee; Reference - Puberty blockers and disproven theory
Dean Smith voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Gerard Rennick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
4 rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 23rd Nov 2021
Covid-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Not passed by a large majority
3 rebellions 65% attendance
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edited 3rd Nov 2023
Motions - Gender Dysphoria - Treating gender diverse children
Dean Smith voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Gerard Rennick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
6 rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 17th Jun 2021
Motions - Child Care - Adopt Labor's Cheaper Child Care Plan
Dean Smith voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Gerard Rennick voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
6 rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 17th Jun 2021
Motions - Jobkeeper Payment - Repay excess funds
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 78% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Motions - Reconciliation Week - This year's theme
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 67% attendance
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edited 21st May 2021
Matters of Urgency - Covid-19: Quarantine - Help Australians in India
Dean Smith voted No
Gerard Rennick voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 66% attendance