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Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Alex Gallacher voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Alex Gallacher
Australian Labor Party Senator for SA since July 2011
Never rebels explain rebellions 91% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly 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
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Carbon farming
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- 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 CSIRO funding
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- 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 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Offshore oil mining
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Australia's timber industry
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Refugee family reunification
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing political transparency
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising the ABC
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Public transport
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Reducing air pollution
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted strongly against
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Privatising government services
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted very strongly against
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An emissions reduction fund
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- 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
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- 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
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The right to protest
- 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
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Investing in climate science
- Making sanitary items GST-free
Please note that our voting records start in 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 11 free votes since entering Parliament in July 2011. explain “Free Votes”
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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
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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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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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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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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Alex Gallacher voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 75% attendance
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Bills — National Skills Commissioner Bill 2020; Second Reading
Alex Gallacher voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 71% attendance
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Business — Rearrangement
Alex Gallacher was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 50% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-2013 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 |
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| 99% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Matt Thistlethwaite | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 99% | Joe Bullock | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 98% | Sue Lines | WA | whilst Australian Labor Party |