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Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Cash is a Liberal Party of Australia senator for Western Australia. First elected 1 July 2008.

2008 Won Senate seat, entered Parliament
2013 Became assistant minister
2015 Became cabinet minister
2017 Admitted staffer tipped media
2017 Became jobs minister
2018 Resigned, became skills minister
2019 Became employment minister
2020 Became deputy government leader
2021 Became attorney-general
2022 Became opposition deputy
2008 May 2026
  1. 2008 Won Senate seat, entered Parliament
  2. 2013 Became assistant minister
  3. 2015 Became cabinet minister
  4. 2017 Admitted staffer tipped media
  5. 2017 Became jobs minister
  6. 2018 Resigned, became skills minister
  7. 2019 Became employment minister
  8. 2020 Became deputy government leader
  9. 2021 Became attorney-general
  10. 2022 Became opposition deputy
  • Liberal Party of Australia

What do they focus on?

Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.

  • Work & employment 67
  • Law, justice & rights 46
  • Budget, tax & economy 10
  • Immigration, border & security 9
  • Education & skills 9

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 99%
  • One Nation 83%
  • Labor 35%
  • Greens 12%

530 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. 18 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. 5 avg 2.8 46
  • Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 98 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.
Michaelia 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?

In the latest covered activity, Cash opposed the tax reform bill in a 24 June 2026 speech, describing it as harmful to saving, investment and aspiration; the tracked record also lists a No vote on second reading. On 31 March, she supported the Copyright Amendment, saying it balanced access with creator payment. On 26 March, she supported doubling ACCC penalties but said that alone would not solve fuel shortages in the ACCC penalties bill, and on 23 March she opposed the Commonwealth Entities Legislation Amendment.

When do they vote against their party?

Michaelia recorded no votes against the Liberal position across 530 recorded votes.

What do they say in debate?

75 tracked speeches across 70 bills.

  • 42 backing a bill
  • 3 with reservations
  • 27 against
  • 3 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.