Senate
Richard Dowling
Richard Dowling is an Australian Labor Party senator for Tasmania. First elected 1 July 2025.
- 2025 Entered Senate
- 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.
206 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. 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. Medium confidence: fewer recorded votes so far.
What have they done lately?
Through 6 July 2026, Dowling’s recent tracked activity included votes on fuel policy, strategic-reserve limits and environmental-law review questions. In Fair Work Amendment (Fairer Fuel), they voted No on referring fuel powers to inquiry and on adding review and sunset safeguards; both questions were defeated.
They also voted No on an early environmental-law review question linked to Strategic Reserve, which was defeated. On firearms and customs laws, Dowling voted Aye on the bill’s third reading but No on several inquiry, review and compensation questions.
When do they vote against their party?
Richard recorded no votes against the Labor position across 206 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
8 tracked speeches across 8 bills.
- 7 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 0 against
- 1 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.