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Rebekha Sharkie

Rebekha Sharkie is the Centre Alliance MP for Mayo. First elected 2 July 2016.

2016 Won Mayo, entered parliament
2018 Resigned, joined Centre Alliance
2018 Won Mayo by-election, returned
2016 May 2026
  1. 2016 Won Mayo, entered parliament
  2. 2018 Resigned, joined Centre Alliance
  3. 2018 Won Mayo by-election, returned
  • Nick Xenophon Team
  • Centre Alliance
  • Out of this seat

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Budget, tax & economy 15
  • Welfare & housing 10
  • Health, care & disability 10
  • Transport & communications 8
  • Climate, energy & environment 6

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.

  • One Nation 85%
  • Coalition 55%
  • Greens 49%
  • Labor 43%

407 tracked votes across their party affiliations.

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. 9.8 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. 7 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 11 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.
Rebekha Greens Labor Coalition One Nation
Economic 115 votes
Social 42 votes
Climate & environment 35 votes

She is a socially liberal, economically pragmatic independent who sometimes joins conservative or populist blocs on regional, security, or protest issues while resisting rushed or overreaching laws. Topic strips exclude accountability and process votes; read small counts loosely.

What have they done lately?

From May to July 2026, Sharkie took a conditional position on NDIS reform: she supported government safeguards for contact attempts and plan managers, but opposed inaccessible or risky treatment requirements; the votes were carried 101–7 and defeated 11–44. She said she would not support the parliamentary departments appropriation, arguing it broke election promises and hurt people through tax, private-health and veterans changes. She strongly supported regional disaster communications and called for harmful gambling and tobacco activity to lose R&D incentives in tax-system reform.

When do they vote against their party?

Rebekha recorded no votes against their party of the day across 407 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

73 tracked speeches across 70 bills.

  • 56 backing a bill
  • 5 with reservations
  • 8 against
  • 4 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.