edited
12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Ged Kearney voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Ged Kearney
Australian Labor Party Representative for Cooper since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 78% attendance explain attendance
Ged Kearney is Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health, and Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care. Before being Australian Labor Party Representative for Cooper, Ged Kearney was Australian Labor Party Representative for Batman.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Drug testing welfare recipients
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Unconventional gas mining
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Ged Kearney has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain rebellions
Free votes
Ged Kearney has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2018. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024; Report from Federation Chamber
Ged Kearney voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 89% attendance
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Ged Kearney was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 6 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Ged Kearney voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 26th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Don't concur with Senate resolution
Ged Kearney voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Resolutions of the Senate - Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission - Concur with Senate resolution
Ged Kearney voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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edited 5th Apr 2019
Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Refer to Committee
Ged Kearney was absent
Not passed by a large majority
No rebellions 77% attendance
Compare Ged Kearney with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Ged Kearney (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 Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |