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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Karen Grogan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Karen Grogan
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since September 2021
Never rebels explain rebellions 88% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Self-governance of the territories
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Transgender rights
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary protection visas
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Karen Grogan has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in September 2021. explain rebellions
Free votes
Karen Grogan has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in September 2021. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan 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
Karen Grogan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Matters of Urgency — Aukus
Karen Grogan voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
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Committees — Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference
Karen Grogan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
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Committees — Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference
Karen Grogan voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 57% attendance
Compare Karen Grogan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Karen Grogan (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 | |
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| 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% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |