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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 55% attendance explain attendance
Kim Carr is Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment (Senate), Shadow Minister for Trade in Services (Senate), and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (Senate).
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing availability of abortion drugs
- Increasing penalties for breach of data
- Increasing support for community radio and TV
- Increasing the price of tobacco
- Letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- Making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- A declared area offence
- A minerals resource rent tax
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- An NBN (using fibre to the premises)
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- The Intervention in the Northern Territory
Voted moderately for
- A carbon price
- A national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- A Royal Commission into banking
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- 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
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- 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
- 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
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Carbon farming
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Equal treatment for all couples
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- Government administered paid parental leave
- Greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals
- Refugee family reunification
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Unconventional gas mining
- Using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing or removing the Government debt limit
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of unions
- 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
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Senate electoral reform
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Voluntary student union fees
Voted strongly against
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Public transport
Voted very strongly against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- 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
- Increasing beef import standards
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- 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 government support for the dairy industry
- 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
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- 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 5 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018 - in Committee - Labor amendments
Kim Carr voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Reporting standards
Kim Carr voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017; Second Reading
Kim Carr voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 75% 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% | Kristina Keneally | NSW | Australian Labor Party |