Senate
Sarah Hanson-Young
Sarah Hanson-Young is an Australian Greens senator for South Australia. First elected 1 July 2008.
- 2018 Filed defamation case
- 2020 Court found her defamed
- Australian Greens
Before this: won Senate seat (2007).
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.
982 tracked votes while with Greens.
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. 6 avg 2.8 46
- Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 37 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 June 2026, she supported legal protections against abusive deepfakes in My Face, My Rights, voted Aye for cooperative workplace rules as the Senate passed the bill 31–25, and voted No on a call to index income-tax brackets in Tax Reform No. 1, defeated 24–30. In April, she sponsored and supported Fix Our Feeds, arguing that users should be able to opt out of algorithmic feeds and that large technology companies should face a digital duty of care.
When do they vote against their party?
Sarah recorded no votes against the Greens position across 982 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
37 tracked speeches across 31 bills.
- 25 backing a bill
- 1 with reservations
- 9 against
- 2 no clear position
Go deeper
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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.