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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Amanda Stoker voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Amanda Stoker
Liberal Party Senator for Queensland since March 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
Amanda Stoker is Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- 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
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Political interference in research funding
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Live animal export
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Promoting multiculturalism
Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Reducing air pollution
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing housing affordability
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Transgender rights
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Tobacco plain packaging
Please note that our voting records start in 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 3 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain “Free Votes”
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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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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Amanda Stoker voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Amanda Stoker voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Amanda Stoker voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Ben Small | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Claire Chandler | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |