Bills — Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail
Bob Katter voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Bob Katter
Katter's Australian Party Representative for Kennedy since September 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 38% attendance explain attendance
Before being Katter's Australian Party Representative for Kennedy, Bob Katter was Independent Representative for Kennedy.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater control over items brought into immigration detention centres
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted generally against
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing political transparency
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Stem cell research
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender rights
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A citizenship test
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An emissions reduction fund
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Capping gas prices
- Carbon farming
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Medicare Levy to pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Increasing the price of subsidised medicine
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Temporary protection visas
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Unconventional gas mining
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Bob Katter has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Business — Conference with the Senate
Bob Katter voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Business — Conference with the Senate
Bob Katter voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Matters of Public Importance — Carbon Pricing
Bob Katter voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Adjournment
Bob Katter was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
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Bills — Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail
Bob Katter was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
Compare Bob Katter with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Bob Katter (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 94% | John Howard | Former Liberal Party Representative for Bennelong |
| 77% | Dai Le | Independent Representative for Fowler |
| 70% | Peter Andren | Former Independent Representative for Calare |
| 69% | Gavan O'Connor | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Corio |
| 68% | Carmen Lawrence | Former Australian Labor Party Representative for Fremantle |