Senate
Mehreen Faruqi
Mehreen Faruqi is an Australian Greens senator for New South Wales. First elected 15 August 2018.
- 2018 Entered Senate via vacancy
- 2019 Won NSW Senate seat
- 2022 Became Greens deputy leader
- 2022 Criticised Queen’s legacy
- 2024 Court found racial discrimination
- Australian Greens
What do they focus on?
Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.
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.
993 tracked votes while with Greens.
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. 7.9 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. 6 avg 2.8 46
- Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 70 avg 7.9 226
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?
On 1 July 2026, Faruqi urged passage of the higher-education fee reform bill, saying it would reverse punitive fee hikes, halve arts-degree costs and restore higher education as a public good. On 29 June, she voted Aye when the Senate passed the cooperative-workplaces bill, which carried 31–25.
On 25 June, her votes on the tax reform bill covered specific amendments: she voted Aye to reinvest tax savings in housing and to keep capital-gains-tax and negative-gearing changes, while voting No on other proposals. On 22 June, she voted Aye on two questions about proceeding with the NDIS bill; both motions carried. These Ayes and Nos describe the recorded questions, not necessarily whole-bill positions.
When do they vote against their party?
Mehreen recorded no votes against the Greens position across 993 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
47 tracked speeches across 42 bills.
- 28 backing a bill
- 4 with reservations
- 13 against
- 2 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.