House of Representatives
Sam Rae
Sam Rae is the Australian Labor Party MP for Hawke. First elected 21 May 2022.
- 2022 Won Hawke, entered parliament
- 2022 Made first speech
- 2023 Apologised over interjection
- 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.
501 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. 3 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?
Recent recorded activity includes a 1 July 2026 speech supporting an Indigenous aged-care commissioner bill, which he said would give older First Nations Australians a stronger voice and improve culturally safe care. On 24 July 2025, he supported technical aged-care amendments to help the rights-based framework operate from November 2025, and the accommodation-payment security levy bill, saying it kept the accommodation payment guarantee and provider levy working under the Aged Care Act 2024. On 12 February 2025, he supported engineered-stone import controls to enable seized products to be destroyed quickly.
When do they vote against their party?
Sam recorded no votes against the Labor position across 501 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
28 tracked speeches across 28 bills.
- 28 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 0 against
- 0 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.