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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 86% 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
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
Something not right?Voted a mixture of for and against
Something not right?Voted moderately against
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
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
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Federal action on public housing
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- 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
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- 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
- 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
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- 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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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018; in Committee
Amanda Stoker voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Amanda Stoker voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Amanda Stoker voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% 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% | Jim Molan | NSW | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Jonathon Duniam | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Richard Colbeck | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Jane Hume | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |