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Jenny McAllister

Jenny McAllister is an Australian Labor Party senator for New South Wales. First elected 6 May 2015.

2015 Entered the Senate
2016 Won Senate seat
2022 Appointed assistant minister
2015 May 2026
  1. 2015 Entered the Senate
  2. 2016 Won Senate seat
  3. 2022 Appointed assistant minister
  • Australian Labor Party

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Budget, tax & economy 16
  • Government & democracy 7
  • Defence & foreign affairs 7
  • Health, care & disability 6
  • Climate, energy & environment 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 53%
  • Coalition 51%
  • One Nation 32%

890 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. 11.2 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. 0 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.
Jenny 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?

Through 1 July 2026, McAllister spoke in support of the nurse-prescribing bill, saying designated nurses should prescribe specified PBS medicines with safeguards; she then voted No on three separate Senate questions about expanding prescribing, all of which carried. On 30 June, she supported the aviation passenger-protection bill, citing enforceable standards, dispute resolution and oversight. On 29 June, she voted Aye for the cooperative-workplaces bill, which passed 31–25.

When do they vote against their party?

Jenny recorded no votes against the Labor position across 890 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

64 tracked speeches across 58 bills.

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

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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.