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Marielle Smith

Marielle Smith is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia. First elected 1 July 2019.

2019 Won Senate seat, entered parliament
2020 Became temporary chair
2022 Chaired Community Affairs
2019 May 2026
  1. 2019 Won Senate seat, entered parliament
  2. 2020 Became temporary chair
  3. 2022 Chaired Community Affairs
  • Australian Labor Party

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Health, care & disability 8
  • Work & employment 5
  • Budget, tax & economy 4
  • Education & skills 4
  • Welfare & housing 4

Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.

How do they vote?

Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.

  • Labor 100%
  • Coalition 58%
  • Greens 46%
  • One Nation 36%

807 tracked votes while with Labor.

How do they compare?

  • Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 7 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
  • Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
  • Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 7.9 226
Where their votes sit, left to right i Built from votes alone: party members sit at their party's mark and move only by votes cast against their own party toward a neighbouring one. Independents are placed by their side on the votes where the parties disagreed.
Marielle Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.

What have they done lately?

On 31 March 2026, Smith voted No on a proposal in the Strategic Reserve bill requiring an early review of conflicts with environmental laws; it was defeated 27–32. On 30 March she spoke in support of ATEC higher-education reforms, presenting them as a way to improve stewardship, access and long-term skills planning. On 25 March she spoke in support of the children and young people commission bill, while the tracked votes that day were No on proposals to raise criminal responsibility age to 14 and require government responses to commissioner reports; both were defeated.

When do they vote against their party?

Marielle recorded no votes against the Labor position across 807 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

32 tracked speeches across 31 bills.

  • 28 backing a bill
  • 0 with reservations
  • 2 against
  • 2 no clear position

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About these numbers

Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.

Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.