House of Representatives
Tony Burke
Tony Burke is the Australian Labor Party MP for Watson. First elected 9 October 2004.
- 2004 Won Watson, entered parliament
- 2007 Became Agriculture minister
- 2010 Became Environment minister
- 2013 Became Immigration minister
- 2022 Returned to cabinet, led 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.
382 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. 21.7 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. 1 avg 0.6 26
- Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 28 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 2026, Burke introduced the authors’ lending-rights transitional bill and presented and supported the modernised lending-rights bill, describing it as a framework for payments to creators and publishers. He supported the firearms and customs bill as a response to the Bondi attack, while recorded No votes concerned specific proposed amendments, not the bill as a whole.
He also supported the ASIO questioning-powers bill and rejected amendments to extend its sunset clause or direct a parliamentary review, arguing the powers remained necessary.
When do they vote against their party?
1 time across 382 tracked votes. Most recently:
- 03 Aug 2022 House passed the bill
What do they say in debate?
49 tracked speeches across 42 bills.
- 44 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 0 against
- 5 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.