edited
4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Helen Kroger voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Helen Kroger
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria July 2008 – June 2014
Never rebelled explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the age pension
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Kroger has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Helen Kroger voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Helen Kroger voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Compare Helen Kroger with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Helen Kroger (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% | Simon Birmingham | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Richard Colbeck | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Anne Ruston | Liberal Party Senator for SA |