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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Chris Ketter
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland July 2014 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 87% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A declared area offence
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted almost always for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Refugee family reunification
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Live animal export
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Pill testing
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Australia's timber industry
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending illegal logging
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Investing in climate science
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Universal access to abortion services
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Chris Ketter has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain rebellions
Free votes
Chris Ketter has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2014. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious versus civil marriage celebrants
Chris Ketter voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Authorised marriage celebrant
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
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edited 23rd Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No obligation to solemnise marriage
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious organisations
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Charities
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Defence chaplains
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - "Freedom" amendments
Chris Ketter voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious marriage celebrants
Chris Ketter voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 29th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Religious and conscientious protection
Chris Ketter 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 Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Chris Ketter voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Chris Ketter voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 18th Apr 2019
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Chris Ketter voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Compare Chris Ketter with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Chris Ketter (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% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Helen Polley | Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania |