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14th Sep 2018
Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Alex Gallacher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Alex Gallacher
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for SA July 2011 – August 2021
Never rebelled explain rebellions 84% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- 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
- A transition plan for coal workers
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Procedural fairness
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
Voted almost always for
- A declared area offence
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
Voted generally for
- A carbon price
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A character test for Australian visas
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- 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
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted almost always against
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Charging postgraduate research students fees
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- 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
- Senate electoral reform
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Voluntary student union fees
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Refugee family reunification
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Alex Gallacher has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain rebellions
Free votes
Alex Gallacher has taken part in 10 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 24th Dec 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Civil celebrants' right to refuse
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher 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
Alex Gallacher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2014
Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Alex Gallacher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Alex Gallacher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 27th Aug 2021
Foreign Intelligence Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Alex Gallacher was absent
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 34% attendance
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edited 27th Aug 2021
Documents - Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction - Order for the Production of Documents
Alex Gallacher was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 27th Aug 2021
Documents - Collinsville Coal-Fired Power Station - Order for the Production of Documents
Alex Gallacher was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
Compare Alex Gallacher with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Alex Gallacher (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 | |
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| 100% | Tim Ayres | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Patrick Dodson | Australian Labor Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Katy Gallagher | Australian Labor Party Senator for ACT |