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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Kristina Keneally voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Kristina Keneally
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW February 2018 – April 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 45% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted almost always for
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Transgender rights
Voted generally for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Live animal export
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Kristina Keneally has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in February 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kristina Keneally has taken part in 7 free votes since entering Parliament in February 2018. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Kristina Keneally voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Kristina Keneally voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Kristina Keneally voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Kristina Keneally voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Kristina Keneally voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small 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
Kristina Keneally voted Yes 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.
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Kristina Keneally voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Kristina Keneally voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Kristina Keneally was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Kristina Keneally with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Kristina Keneally (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% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party Representative for Bean |
| 100% | Glenn Sterle | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |