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12th Jul 2019
Regulations and Determinations - Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 - Disallowance
Lucy Gichuhi voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
Lucy Gichuhi
Former Liberal Party Senator for SA February 2018 – July 2019
Never rebelled explain rebellions 78% attendance explain attendance
Before being Liberal Party Senator for SA, Lucy Gichuhi was Independent Senator for SA and Family First Party Senator for SA.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Investing in climate science
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted consistently against
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Pill testing
- Privatising certain government services
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Same-sex marriage equality
Has never voted on
- A carbon price
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A declared area offence
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising euthanasia
- Legalising pepper spray
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Privatising the ABC
- Promoting multiculturalism
- 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
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Transgender rights
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Lucy Gichuhi has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in April 2017. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 11th Apr 2019
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Lucy Gichuhi 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
Lucy Gichuhi voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
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edited 17th Aug 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
Lucy Gichuhi was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 17th Aug 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Wife pension transition
Lucy Gichuhi was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 76% attendance
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edited 10th Aug 2018
Motions - Parliament House Passholders - Conduct of guests
Lucy Gichuhi was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 74% attendance
No votes listed as Former Family First Party Senator for SA
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Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament (whilst Liberal Party). 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 91% | Arthur Sinodinos | Liberal Party |
| 75% | Fraser Anning | whilst Independent |
| 73% | Steve Martin | Independent |
| 73% | James Paterson | Liberal Party |
| 72% | Mathias Cormann | Liberal Party |