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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Amanda Stoker voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Amanda Stoker
Former Liberal Party Senator for Queensland March 2018 – May 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 83% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore oil mining
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing personal income tax
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing workplace protections
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Pill testing
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Amanda Stoker has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
Amanda Stoker has taken part in 8 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Amanda Stoker voted Yes 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 - Stage 2 licences
Amanda Stoker voted Yes 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
Amanda Stoker voted No 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
Amanda Stoker voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Amanda Stoker voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
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edited 7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Amanda Stoker voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
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edited 14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Amanda Stoker voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Address workforce shortages
Amanda Stoker voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Acknowledge crisis
Amanda Stoker voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 72% attendance
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edited 12th Apr 2022
Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 and another - Third Reading - Pass the bills
Amanda Stoker voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 49% attendance
Compare Amanda Stoker with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Amanda Stoker (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% | Alex Antic | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Wendy Askew | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Slade Brockman | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |