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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Kimberley Kitching
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria October 2016 – March 2022
Never rebelled explain rebellions 61% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
Voted almost always for
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Federal action on public housing
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Transgender rights
Voted generally for
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing air pollution
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted generally against
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
Voted almost always against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Building community climate change resilience
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Restricting donations to political parties
Voted consistently against
- A same-sex marriage plebiscite
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%
- Increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Pill testing
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH
- The use of strong encryption technologies
- Voluntary student union fees
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- A Royal Commission into banking
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- A travel ban on people from certain countries
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Buffer zones around abortion clinics
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Investing in climate science
- Landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration
- Legalising pepper spray
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Tighter means testing of family payments
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 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 14 free votes since entering Parliament in October 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Kimberley Kitching voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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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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edited 24th Feb 2022
Corporations Amendment (Meetings and Documents) Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 54% attendance
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edited 24th Feb 2022
Corporations Amendment (Meetings and Documents) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Wholly virtual meetings for non-listed entities
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 51% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
Compare Kimberley Kitching with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Kimberley Kitching (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anthony Chisholm | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Raff Ciccone | Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Nita Green | Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland |
| 100% | Deborah O'Neill | Australian Labor Party Senator for NSW |