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7th Dec 2018
Documents - Queensland: Abortion - Let a vote happen
Kimberley Kitching voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 70% attendance
Kimberley Kitching
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since October 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 77% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Federal action on public housing
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government assets
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- Privatising the ABC
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted strongly against
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
Voted very strongly against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Outsourcing government services
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Technology neutral emission reduction targets
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The right to protest
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
Has never voted on
- A declared area offence
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing political transparency
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Tighter means testing of family payments
Please note that our voting records start in 2006.
Rebel votes
Kimberley Kitching has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in October 2016. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kimberley Kitching has taken part in 12 free votes since entering Parliament in October 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 30th Nov 2017
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching 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
Kimberley Kitching voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 92% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Regulations and Determinations — Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019; Disallowance
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 79% attendance
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edited 12 days ago
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 66% attendance
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edited 5 days ago
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 61% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) 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% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Deborah O'Neill | NSW | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Louise Pratt | WA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Chris Ketter | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |