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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Katy Gallagher
Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT since July 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 67% attendance explain attendance
Katy Gallagher is Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Manager of Government Business in the Senate, and Minister for Finance. Before being Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT, Katy Gallagher was Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Australia's timber industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Offshore oil mining
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
Voted generally for
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted almost always against
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Nuclear energy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- 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 under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Temporary protection visas
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Katy Gallagher has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2015. explain rebellions
Free votes
Katy Gallagher has taken part in 17 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2015. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Katy Gallagher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Katy Gallagher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Katy Gallagher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Katy Gallagher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Katy Gallagher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Katy Gallagher voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Katy Gallagher voted No 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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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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edited 11th May 2018
Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Media diversity
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 30th May 2018
Regulations and Determinations - Basin Plan Amendment (Sdl Adjustments) Instrument 2017 - Disallowance
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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edited 11th May 2018
Motions - Pensions and Benefits - Income support debts
Katy Gallagher was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
Compare Katy Gallagher with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Katy Gallagher (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% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Catryna Bilyk | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Carol Brown | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Lisa Darmanin | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Varun Ghosh | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |