Katy Gallagher
Senator for ACT · Australian Labor Party
Minister for Government Services · Minister for the Public Service · Minister for Women · Vice-President of the Executive Council · Manager of Government Business in the Senate · Minister for Finance
Voted consistently for
95% or more of their votes supported these positions.
- increasing funding for road infrastructure
- the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement
- making Australians working overseas repay their student debts
- letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions
- increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- increasing the price of tobacco
- a national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors
- a Free Trade Agreement with China
Voted consistently against
5% or fewer of their votes supported these positions.
- public transport
- considering motions on Gaza (2023-26) (procedural)
- putting a time limit on immigration detention
- net zero emissions by 2035
- a review of our representatives' eligibility
- changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
- ending immigration detention on Nauru
- increasing the cost of humanities degrees
Voted both ways
Positions where Katy’s votes fall on both sides. Each of these policies groups dozens of divisions across many years, including procedural motions and narrow amendments. Follow a link to see the votes.
Work expenses
all expenses$611,362 claimed over 4 quarters (Apr–Jun 2025 to Jan–Mar 2026), 1.26× the median for ACT.
- Employee Travel$232k
- Office Facilities$203k
- Office Administration$104k
- Other Car Costs$31k
- Scheduled Commercial Transport$25k
- Travel Allowance$15k
How to read this
- They Vote For You groups related divisions into plain-language "policies" and scores how often each member voted with that position. Those groupings are editorial judgements made by the OpenAustralia Foundation, not official parliamentary categories.
- An agreement score in the middle of the range means the member voted on both sides of that policy over time. That is normal: policies aggregate dozens of divisions across many years, including procedural motions and narrow amendments. We deliberately publish no "flip-flop" score, because when we measured it, almost every member qualified — it reflects how the scoring works, not anyone's conduct.
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- Former parliamentarians — including former prime ministers, who retain certain entitlements — are reported separately and excluded from member comparisons.
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Full record for Katy Gallagher at They Vote For You, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). Retrieved 2026-07-22.