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Katy Gallagher

Katy Gallagher is an Australian Labor Party senator for the Australian Capital Territory. First elected 25 March 2015.

2015 Entered Senate
2017 Disqualified over citizenship
2018 Left federal parliament
2019 Won Senate return
2022 Became Finance minister
2015 May 2026
  1. 2015 Entered Senate
  2. 2017 Disqualified over citizenship
  3. 2018 Left federal parliament
  4. 2019 Won Senate return
  5. 2022 Became Finance minister
  • Australian Labor Party
  • Out of this seat

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Budget, tax & economy 10
  • Climate, energy & environment 8
  • Health, care & disability 7
  • Work & employment 7
  • Law, justice & rights 5

Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.

How do they vote?

Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.

  • Labor 100%
  • Greens 57%
  • Coalition 51%
  • One Nation 34%

623 tracked votes while with Labor.

How do they compare?

  • Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 10.3 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
  • Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
  • Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 9 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 7.9 226
Where their votes sit, left to right i Built from votes alone: party members sit at their party's mark and move only by votes cast against their own party toward a neighbouring one. Independents are placed by their side on the votes where the parties disagreed.
Katy Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.

What have they done lately?

In June 2026, Gallagher supported Income Tax Rates Amendment, whose speech addresses replacing the capital-gains tax discount and reducing housing tax breaks. A separate bill, Treasury Laws tax-reform bill, was described as combining worker tax cuts with capital-gains tax and negative-gearing reform to help first-home buyers and support new housing supply. On 29 June, she voted Aye as Building Cooperative Workplaces bill passed the Senate, 31–25. On 2 July, she supported Regulatory Reform Omnibus, saying it would simplify regulation while maintaining safeguards.

When do they vote against their party?

Katy recorded no votes against the Labor position across 623 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

67 tracked speeches across 58 bills.

  • 63 backing a bill
  • 0 with reservations
  • 1 against
  • 3 no clear position

About these numbers

Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.

Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.