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11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Sue Lines voted No
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Sue Lines and Kimberley Kitching have voted the same way 99.7% of the time
Sue Lines
President Senator for WA since July 2022
Kimberley Kitching
Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria October 2016 – March 2022
Between October 2016 and March 2022 Sue Lines and Kimberley Kitching have voted in the same division 866 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 863 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted the same way on
- A carbon price
- A review of our representatives' eligibility
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An independent inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter
- An inquiry into the Iraq War
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building community climate change resilience
- Changing the date of Australia Day
- Civil celebrants having the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Criminalising "revenge porn"
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Expanding public funded dental care
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Live animal export
- MacMines' proposed China Stone coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making sanitary items GST-free
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Offshore oil mining
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Privatising certain government services
- Privatising the ABC
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing air pollution
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Same-sex marriage equality
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 863 times. They have only voted differently 3 times.
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Sue Lines voted Yes
Kimberley Kitching voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Sue Lines voted No
Kimberley Kitching voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance