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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
Kimberley Kitching is Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability, and Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- 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 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
- Reducing personal income tax
- 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
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted strongly for
- Ending illegal logging
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Trans rights
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)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting whistleblowers
- 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
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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
- Reducing air pollution
- 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
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- 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
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing federal government support for child care
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Legalising pepper spray
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
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
- 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%
- 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
- 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
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- 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 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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Matters of Urgency - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes
Not passed
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 13th Sep 2019
Motions - Newstart Allowance - Increase
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% 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% | Nita Green | Queensland | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Jess Walsh | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 97% | Raff Ciccone | Victoria | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Alex Gallacher | SA | Australian Labor Party |
| 96% | Tony Sheldon | NSW | Australian Labor Party |