Senate
Michelle Ananda-Rajah
Michelle Ananda-Rajah is an Australian Labor Party senator for Victoria. First elected 21 May 2022.
- 2022 Won Higgins, entered Parliament
- 2024 Higgins seat abolished
- 2025 Entered Senate, left House
- Australian Labor Party
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.
704 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. 4.1 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
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?
In early July 2026, she spoke in support of the unfair-trading-practices bill, saying it would ban manipulative trading practices and protect consumers and small businesses from hidden costs and pressure tactics. On 1–2 July, she voted No on specific proposals to narrow the test, cover personal-data lead generation or financial services, delay the small-business ban, require a three-day warning before free trials became paid, or require narrower rules; these votes do not by themselves establish opposition to the bill as a whole.
On 24–25 June, she supported the tax reform bill in a speech and voted on several amendment questions, including Aye on keeping CGT and gearing changes and restricting SMSF borrowing for property, and No on indexing income-tax brackets. On 29 June, she voted Aye for the workplace-relations bill, which carried 31–25.
When do they vote against their party?
Michelle recorded no votes against the Labor position across 704 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
59 tracked speeches across 55 bills.
- 55 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 2 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.