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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Kristina Keneally voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Kristina Keneally
Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW since February 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 58% attendance explain attendance
Kristina Keneally is Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore oil mining
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Reducing personal income tax
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- Building community climate change resilience
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Nuclear energy
Voted very strongly against
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Restricting donations to political parties
- The use of strong encryption technologies
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Australia's timber industry
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The right to protest
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Kristina Keneally has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in February 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kristina Keneally has taken part in 1 free vote since entering Parliament in February 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Kristina Keneally was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Kristina Keneally was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
-
Business — Rearrangement
Kristina Keneally was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Deborah O'Neill | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 93% | Anthony Chisholm | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |