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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
Kimberley Kitching
Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria since October 2016
Never rebels explain rebellions 62% attendance explain attendance
Kimberley Kitching is Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senate), Shadow Minister for Government Services (Senate), Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Services and the NDIS, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel (Senate), Shadow Minister Assisting for Defence (Senate), Shadow Minister for Defence Industry (Senate), and Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate.
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Expanding Medicare-funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Investing in climate science
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Privatising government assets
- Reducing personal income tax
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Strengthening gun control laws
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Tobacco plain packaging
- Turning back asylum boats when possible
Voted strongly for
- A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice in parliament
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Ending illegal logging
- Federal action on public housing
- Imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- Offshore oil mining
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Transgender rights
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Voted moderately for
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- 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)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- 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
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted a mixture of for and against
- A carbon price
- A Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Reducing air pollution
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
Voted moderately against
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')
- Live animal export
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
Voted strongly against
- Building community climate change resilience
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Legalising pepper spray
- Nuclear energy
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
Voted very strongly against
- 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 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
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Pill testing
- Political interference in research funding
- Privatising government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Reducing the corporate tax rate
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting foreign ownership
- 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 combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- 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
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Legalising euthanasia
- Maintaining or increasing defence spending
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- 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 11 free votes since entering Parliament in October 2016. explain “Free Votes”
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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 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 35% attendance
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Publication of COVID-19 payment info
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% attendance
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edited 3rd Sep 2021
Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 - in Committee - Overly high threshold
Kimberley Kitching was absent
Not passed
No rebellions 32% 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 | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 95% | Gavin Marshall | whilst Deputy President |
| 95% | David Smith | Australian Labor Party |
| 95% | Alex Gallacher | Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Sue Lines | whilst Australian Labor Party |
| 94% | Louise Pratt | Australian Labor Party |