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Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Kirsten Livermore
Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Capricornia October 1998 – August 2013
Never rebelled explain rebellions 90% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted moderately for
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted very strongly against
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the age pension
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Privatising government assets
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Kirsten Livermore has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kirsten Livermore has taken part in 7 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Consideration in Detail - Offence of using precursor cells
Kirsten Livermore voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 — Consideration in Detail — Offence of using precursor cells
Kirsten Livermore voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Consideration in Detail - Amend the current process
Kirsten Livermore voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Bill unacceptable
Kirsten Livermore voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Pass the bill
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bill
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013 - Consideration in Detail - Put the question
Kirsten Livermore voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Representatives voted most similarly to this one in the Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Representatives attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Representatives that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | Electorate | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Brett Raguse | Forde | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Jon Sullivan | Longman | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Nick Champion | Wakefield | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Kerry Rea | Bonner | Australian Labor Party |
| 100% | Darren Cheeseman | Corangamite | Australian Labor Party |