Chris Ketter

Christopher Ronald Ketter (born 12 February 1961) is a former Australian politician who represented Queensland for the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate from 1 July 2014, elected at the 2013 election, until 30 June 2019.[1]

Ketter is linked with the conservative Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA).[2] Ketter was one of only two Labor Senators (along with Helen Polley) to vote against the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, which legalised same-sex marriage in Australia.[3] Ketter was placed second on Labor's Queensland Senate ticket at the 2019 federal election and failed to get re-elected, after the party suffered a swing against it to the Liberal National Party, One Nation and the Greens.[4] His term expired on 30 June 2019.