Senate
Varun Ghosh
Varun Ghosh is an Australian Labor Party senator for Western Australia. First elected 1 February 2024.
- 2024 Entered Senate for WA
- 2024 Gave first Senate speech
- Australian Labor Party
Before this: chosen for Senate vacancy (2023).
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.
711 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. 2.4 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. 1 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?
Recent tracked activity was concentrated in late June 2026. On 29 June, Ghosh voted Aye for passage of the workplace-relations bill, which passed 31–25. On 25 June, he voted No on a call to index income-tax brackets in tax reform; that call was defeated 24–30. On 22 June, he voted No on suspending Senate business rules and No on proceeding with consideration of the NDIS bill. Those were procedural questions, so the pack does not establish a position on the whole NDIS bill.
When do they vote against their party?
Varun recorded no votes against the Labor position across 711 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
3 tracked speeches across 3 bills.
- 2 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 1 against
- 0 no clear position
Go deeper
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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.