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Gerard Rennick

Gerard Rennick was a Gerard Rennick People First senator for Queensland. First elected 1 July 2019.

2024 Left Liberal Party
2024 Joined Gerard Rennick People First
2025 Left parliament
2019 May 2026
  1. 2024 Left Liberal Party
  2. 2024 Joined Gerard Rennick People First
  3. 2025 Left parliament
  • Liberal Party of Australia
  • Independent
  • Gerard Rennick People First

Before this: won Queensland Senate seat (2019).

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Government & democracy 8
  • Budget, tax & economy 6
  • Climate, energy & environment 4
  • Law, justice & rights 3
  • Health, care & disability 2

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 88%
  • Coalition 87%
  • Greens 19%
  • Labor 13%

432 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. 6 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. 9 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. 3 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.
Gerard Greens Labor Coalition One Nation
Economic 40 votes
Social 33 votes
Climate & environment 10 votes

His strong economic and social conservatism puts him firmly on the right, though he often breaks with the Coalition on civil-liberties and COVID-accountability issues. Topic strips exclude accountability and process votes; read small counts loosely.

What have they done lately?

Gerard Rennick left parliament on 30 June 2025. This card covers their full tracked record.

When do they vote against their party?

9 times across 432 tracked votes. Most recently:

What do they say in debate?

28 tracked speeches across 28 bills.

  • 10 backing a bill
  • 1 with reservations
  • 16 against
  • 1 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.