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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Kim Carr voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Kim Carr
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since April 1993
Never rebels explain rebellions 57% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A declared area offence
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending government benefits to same-sex couples
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Unconventional gas mining
- Uranium export
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- A federal inquiry into Queensland government administration
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Carbon farming
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- 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
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Reducing air pollution
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Public transport
Voted very strongly against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- 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
- Deregulating undergraduate university fees
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Legalising pepper spray
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Temporary protection visas
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Has never voted on
- A citizenship test
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An emissions reduction fund
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing competition in bulk wheat export
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Legalising euthanasia
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Kim Carr has never voted against the majority of their party since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kim Carr has taken part in 26 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kim Carr voted Yes 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr 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
Kim Carr voted Yes 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
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 88% attendance
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edited 16th Sep 2016
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time DUPLICATE
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - 15 day warrant duration
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 10th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Increase penalties to 15 years
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - National Stem Cell Bank
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Deposit of stem cell samples
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - In Committee - Public health benefit
Kim Carr voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 78% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Kim Carr voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Kim Carr voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 7th Oct 2014
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Kim Carr voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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edited 19 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Kim Carr voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 34% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Kim Carr voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 19 days ago
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Kim Carr voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | Mehmet Tillem | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | David Smith | ACT | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Ruth Webber | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Linda Kirk | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |