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Ross Vasta

Ross Vasta was the Liberal Party of Australia MP for Bonner. First elected 9 October 2004.

2004 Won Bonner, entered parliament
2007 Lost Bonner seat
2010 Won Bonner, returned
2025 Left parliament
2004 May 2026
  1. 2004 Won Bonner, entered parliament
  2. 2007 Lost Bonner seat
  3. 2010 Won Bonner, returned
  4. 2025 Left parliament
  • Liberal Party of Australia
  • Out of this seat

What do they focus on?

Within the tracked sample of 713 bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments to 14 May 2026, he cast 263 tracked votes across 119 bills and gave one tracked speech. His votes cover broad party business, including small-business and charity tax measures in Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures), workplace rules in Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2), and environmental protection arrangements in Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia). His only tracked speech addressed Help to Buy, a home-buying scheme; he argued it was too small, expensive and underwhelming to help enough Australians.

  • Budget, tax & economy 1

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.

  • Coalition 100%
  • Greens 11%
  • Labor 10%

263 tracked votes while with Liberal.

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. 17.8 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. 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
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.
Ross Greens Labor Coalition One Nation

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?

Ross Vasta left parliament on 03 May 2025. This card covers their full tracked record.

When do they vote against their party?

1 time across 263 tracked votes. Most recently:

What do they say in debate?

1 tracked speeches across 1 bills.

  • 0 backing a bill
  • 0 with reservations
  • 1 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.