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Portrait of Mehreen Faruqi

Mehreen Faruqi

Australian Greens · Senate · NSW · incumbent

Early life & education encyclopedia

Mehreen Saeed Faruqi was born on 8 July 1963 in Lahore, Pakistan, and was raised on the campus of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), where her father, a civil engineer, was a professor. She graduated from UET Lahore with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) in 1988, then migrated to Australia in 1992, settling in Sydney, where she earned a Master of Engineering Science from UNSW in 1994 and a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering in 2000. She worked as an engineer before becoming a Senator for New South Wales for the Australian Greens in 2018.

Background encyclopedia

Worked around 25 years as an engineer and academic, including council environmental management roles and as director of the Institute of Environmental Studies at UNSW. Member of the NSW Legislative Council 2013-2018, then appointed to the Senate in 2018. Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens from 10 June 2022 to 30 September 2026.

Elected 2025 · NSW FARUQI, Mehreen (The Greens) was declared elected 5th of 6 at the 2025 federal election. [AEC results]

Sourced positions

Each position is the member's own stated view or vote, supported by the listed sources. The badge says what kind of source backs it — official record (Hansard, a parliament, a government or an electoral commission), own statement (their own site or their party's), news report (journalism or a third-party organisation) or encyclopedia. That is a statement about the evidence, not about how much we believe it. This page records public statements and conduct only — see methodology.

AyeNoPairedDid not vote

Immigration news report

In September 2025 she sought to move a motion in the Senate condemning anti-immigration marches as 'racist, white supremacist rallies' and accused politicians and media of normalising hate.

Votes on record · 4

Faith & religion encyclopedia

Mehreen Faruqi is Muslim; she was the first Muslim woman to be a member of an Australian parliament and the first female Muslim senator.

Foreign policy & aid news report

Faruqi has been a prominent parliamentary critic of Israel over the Gaza war. In November 2023 she led Greens colleagues in a Senate walkout protesting the government's refusal to call for a ceasefire, and in 2025 she held signs in the Senate reading "Gaza is starving... Sanction Israel" and directly asked PM Albanese, "will you sanction Israel?" She has called for an end to Australian military exports to Israel.

Votes on record · 2

Citizenship (s44 eligibility) encyclopedia

Migrated from Pakistan in 1992 and became an Australian citizen in 1994; she retained Pakistani citizenship until renouncing it in 2017 to meet section 44 eligibility requirements before entering federal Parliament.

Economy & tax recorded votes

Votes on record · 8

Welfare & social services recorded votes

Votes on record · 3

Workplace & industrial relations recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Freedom of speech recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Drugs & law and order recorded votes

Votes on record · 7

Gambling & gaming reform recorded votes

Votes on record · 1

First Nations & treaty recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Integrity & anti-corruption recorded votes

Votes on record · 9

Housing & planning recorded votes

Votes on record · 3

  • ✓Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025Liberal senator Wendy Askew's bill to make changes to Housing Australia's investment mandate — including the Home Guarantee Scheme — subject to parliamentary disallowance rather than ministerial direction alone.Second and third reading · Senate · carried 36–2526 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✗Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024Liberal senator Andrew Bragg's bill to bar the Housing Australia Future Fund from dealing with the CFMEU or organisations connected with it, including the Cbus super fund.Second reading · Senate · negatived 26–3626 Mar 2026 ↗

Health recorded votes

Votes on record · 6

Education recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Transport & infrastructure recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Energy recorded votes

Votes on record · 1

Environment & water recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

Votes are shown as the official record lists them — Hansard federally and in New South Wales; Votes and Proceedings, Minutes of the Proceedings and Hansard in Victoria; the Record of Proceedings in Queensland; the Votes and Proceedings and Minutes of Proceedings in Western Australia; the Votes and Proceedings (House of Assembly) and Hansard (Legislative Council) in South Australia; the Votes and Proceedings of both chambers in Tasmania. "Did not vote" means the member held the seat that day and is on neither list — the record says who was in the chamber, not why, so it is never an abstention. Western Australia’s record prints no pairs, so a member paired there shows as did not vote. Nothing is shown for a presiding officer who by law gives only a casting vote (the Speaker and the President in South Australia, the President in Tasmania), nor for the member presiding at a Tasmanian division, which Tasmania’s journals record. Which bills sit under which issue is an editorial choice, made bill by bill with a reason read from the second-reading speech. A bill decided by an earlier parliament (Queensland’s 2018 abortion law reform, for one) is shown with that parliament named, read from the official record of the day. For Queensland and the federal parliament “did not vote” there means the member held a seat that day, as their service is recorded; for the other earlier parliaments the record of who held a seat could not be read, so only the printed Aye, No and paired votes are shown.

Record last updated 2026-10-10.