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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
Amanda Stoker
Liberal Party Senator for Queensland since March 2018
Never rebels explain rebellions 85% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- 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 the ABC
- Reducing personal income tax
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
What does this mean?Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- 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 transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- 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
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Trans rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- 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 2 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Relief So Working Australians Keep More of Their Money) Bill 2019 - in Committee - Low income earners
Amanda Stoker voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Relief So Working Australians Keep More of Their Money) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Amanda Stoker voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 91% attendance
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Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Relief So Working Australians Keep More of Their Money) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Government should increase Newstart & Youth Allowance
Amanda Stoker voted No
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 89% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Andrew Bragg | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Claire Chandler | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 100% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 100% | Susan McDonald | Queensland | National Party |