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4th Jan 2015
Motions - Youth Mental Health - Redirect chaplaincy funding to qualified mental health workers
Helen Kroger voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 62% attendance
Helen Kroger
Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria July 2008 – June 2014
Never rebelled explain rebellions 80% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Temporary protection visas
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Uranium export
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted moderately for
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Increasing surveillance powers
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted moderately against
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Same-sex marriage equality
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A minerals resource rent tax
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Carbon farming
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Has never voted on
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Kroger has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in July 2008. explain rebellions
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Helen Kroger voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report
Helen Kroger voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2008-2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | Mitch Fifield | Victoria | Liberal Party |
| 97% | Richard Colbeck | Tasmania | Liberal Party |
| 96% | Michaelia Cash | WA | Liberal Party |
| 95% | Stephen Parry | Tasmania | whilst Deputy President |
| 95% | David Bushby | Tasmania | Liberal Party |