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Economy & tax recorded votes

Votes on record · 4

  • ✗Health Insurance Levies Amendment Bill 2024Raises the levy on private health insurers so the State recovers the cost of private patients in public hospital single rooms, which the largest insurers pay only the shared-room rate for, and lets the Treasurer increase it if negotiations with insurers fail.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–1724 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✗Regional Development Amendment Bill 2024Broadens the purposes for which the Regional Development Trust can give financial help to regional NSW and the forms it can take (grants, subsidies, loans and tax rebates), lets conditions and securities be attached, and requires a Regional Development Advisory Council.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 22–1117 Sep 2024 ↗
  • ✗First Home Buyer Legislation Amendment Bill 2023Raises the thresholds for first home buyer stamp duty relief from 1 July 2023, targeting homes up to $1 million with more help above $650,000, doubles the residence requirement to 12 months, and closes the former government's First Home Buyer Choice option of paying an annual property tax instead of stamp duty.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–171 Jun 2023 ↗
  • ✓Constitution Amendment (Sydney Water and Hunter Water) Bill 2023Adds a part to the NSW Constitution so that Sydney Water, Hunter Water or their main undertakings can be sold or disposed of only with the explicit support of a majority of members of both Houses, closing off a sale approved by the two shareholding Ministers alone. Commercial arrangements that involve no sale are still allowed.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 32–51 Jun 2023 ↗

Workplace & industrial relations recorded votes

Votes on record · 8

  • ✗Work Health and Safety Amendment (Digital Work Systems) Bill 2025Makes explicit that a business's duty to keep workers safe covers the risks of the digital systems it uses to allocate or manage work, such as workloads, surveillance and discrimination through algorithms and apps.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 20–17 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 19–1412 Feb 2026 ↗
  • –Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2025Defines psychological injuries for workers compensation and sets an accelerated process for bullying, excessive work demands and harassment claims, denies compensation where a psychological injury was predominantly caused by reasonable management action, limits weekly and medical entitlements (not for existing claims or firefighters), and adds a work health and safety duty for businesses that allocate work through digital systems.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–63 Feb 2026 ↗
  • ✓Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Defines psychological injuries, bullying and harassment for workers compensation, sets an objective test for whether they occurred, and gives the Industrial Relations Commission those disputes. It also raises the impairment thresholds for ongoing payments and damages, limits the duration of payments for all but the most seriously injured, and makes employers pay the first two weeks of payments.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 33–613 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Industrial Relations and Other Legislation Amendment (Workplace Protections) Bill 2025Creates anti-bullying and sexual harassment jurisdictions in the Industrial Relations Commission, clarifies its powers in disputes, strengthens freedom of association and protection from victimisation, adds gender equality to the Act's objects, and tightens work health and safety duties, including mandatory codes of practice.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 32–326 Jun 2025 ↗
  • ✓Industrial Relations Amendment (Administrator) Bill 2024Requires an administrator to be appointed to run the NSW registered CFMEU Construction and General Division, alongside the federal administration, with power to demand documents and information. It applies to no other union.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 28–415 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✗Industrial Relations Amendment Bill 2023Repeals the public sector wages cap in section 146C of the Industrial Relations Act, which had limited the Industrial Relations Commission since 2011, adds a mutual gains bargaining approach for public sector agencies and unions, and re-establishes an Industrial Court with the status of the Supreme Court.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 23–12 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 24–1430 Nov 2023 ↗

Abortion & reproductive policy recorded votes

Votes on record · 3

  • ✓Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Sex Selection Prohibition) Bill 2025A private member's bill from John Ruddick (Libertarian Party) that would amend the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 to prohibit terminating a pregnancy because of the sex of the foetus.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 16–2116 Sep 2026 ↗
  • ✗Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Amanda Cohn (Greens) that would require the Health Minister to ensure abortion services are available within a reasonable distance of people's homes across NSW, with public information about access, let endorsed midwives and nurse practitioners provide early medical abortion, and remove the requirement to notify each termination to the Health Secretary.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 24–16 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 25–157 May 2025 ↗8 May 2025 ↗

Voluntary assisted dying recorded votes

Votes on record · 1

  • ✓Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment (Residential Facilities) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Susan Carter (Liberal) that would let residential aged care facilities, such as faith-based ones, decline to have voluntary assisted dying carried out on their premises, aligning them with hospitals. The existing duty to make alternative arrangements would remain.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 16–2319 Nov 2025 ↗

Gender & LGBTQ+ policy news report

Liberal MLC who argued against the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2024, citing concerns about single-sex spaces. She was also among the members who moved or supported amendments during the Conversion Practices Ban Bill 2024 debate.

Votes on record · 3

  • ✗Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Alex Greenwich (independent, Sydney) that would widen the Anti-Discrimination Act to cover sexuality, variations of sex characteristics and sex workers, remove exemptions for private schools, limit religious bodies' employment exemptions to roles relevant to religious practice, and change trans people's access to updated documents, among many other changes.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 17–13 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 15–1217 Oct 2024 ↗17 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✓Conversion Practices Ban Bill 2024Makes it an offence, with up to five years' prison, to carry out a practice directed at changing or suppressing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity that causes substantial mental or physical harm, and creates a civil complaints scheme for other conversion practices. General statements, and parents discussing sexuality, gender or religion with their children, are not covered.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 28–621 Mar 2024 ↗

Religious freedom news report

Carter (Liberal MLC) used parliamentary questioning to scrutinise the religious-freedom impact of the Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024, asking Attorney General Michael Daley whether the law makes some prayers unlawful even when people freely seek them; in response Daley confirmed that 'praying with or over a particular person in an attempt to try to change or suppress that person's sexuality or gender is unlawful.'

Votes on record · 11

  • ✓Local Government and Other Legislation Amendment (Places of Public Worship) Bill 2026Lets councils ask the Land and Environment Court to order water, gas and electricity to be cut off to premises used as an unauthorised place of public worship that ignore a stop-use order, and doubles the penalties for ignoring stop-use orders to $6,000 for individuals and $12,000 for corporations.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–619 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✓Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Lets police give a move-on direction to a person taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, protest or assembly in or near a place of worship who is intentionally blocking people entering or leaving it, or harassing, intimidating or threatening them.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 29–6 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 27–527 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment (Residential Facilities) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Susan Carter (Liberal) that would let residential aged care facilities, such as faith-based ones, decline to have voluntary assisted dying carried out on their premises, aligning them with hospitals. The existing duty to make alternative arrangements would remain.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 16–2319 Nov 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Legislation Amendment (Racial and Religious Hatred) Bill 2025Creates an aggravated offence, with up to two years' prison, of displaying a Nazi symbol on or near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum, confirms that graffiti is a 'public act' for these offences, makes hatred of a group an aggravating factor in sentencing, and makes graffiti on any place of worship an aggravated offence.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 30–720 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Makes it an offence, with up to two years' prison or a $22,000 fine, to intentionally impede people entering or leaving a place of worship, or to intimidate, harass or threaten them, and lets police use move-on powers against demonstrations, protests and assemblies outside places of worship.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 28–7 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 23–620 Feb 2025 ↗20 Feb 2025 ↗
  • ✗Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Alex Greenwich (independent, Sydney) that would widen the Anti-Discrimination Act to cover sexuality, variations of sex characteristics and sex workers, remove exemptions for private schools, limit religious bodies' employment exemptions to roles relevant to religious practice, and change trans people's access to updated documents, among many other changes.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 17–13 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 15–1217 Oct 2024 ↗17 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✓Conversion Practices Ban Bill 2024Makes it an offence, with up to five years' prison, to carry out a practice directed at changing or suppressing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity that causes substantial mental or physical harm, and creates a civil complaints scheme for other conversion practices. General statements, and parents discussing sexuality, gender or religion with their children, are not covered.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 28–621 Mar 2024 ↗

Freedom of speech recorded votes

Votes on record · 14

  • ✓Crimes and Summary Offences Amendment Bill 2025Adds offences for publicly engaging in Nazi conduct to the existing Nazi symbol offences, with up to 12 months' prison, or two years near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum, and makes clear that taking part in an authorised public assembly is no defence to other offences.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–24 Jun 2026 ↗
  • ✓Local Government and Other Legislation Amendment (Places of Public Worship) Bill 2026Lets councils ask the Land and Environment Court to order water, gas and electricity to be cut off to premises used as an unauthorised place of public worship that ignore a stop-use order, and doubles the penalties for ignoring stop-use orders to $6,000 for individuals and $12,000 for corporations.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–619 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✓Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Makes the largest changes to NSW firearms law in a generation, including restricting the types of firearms licensees may have, requiring licensees to be Australian citizens and club members, and tightening storage rules. It also lets police restrict public assemblies in declared areas, makes displaying a terrorist organisation's symbol an offence, and lets police require face coverings to be removed at assemblies.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 29–11 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 18–823 Dec 2025 ↗
  • ✓Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Lets police give a move-on direction to a person taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, protest or assembly in or near a place of worship who is intentionally blocking people entering or leaving it, or harassing, intimidating or threatening them.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 29–6 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 27–527 Nov 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Legislation Amendment (Racial and Religious Hatred) Bill 2025Creates an aggravated offence, with up to two years' prison, of displaying a Nazi symbol on or near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum, confirms that graffiti is a 'public act' for these offences, makes hatred of a group an aggravating factor in sentencing, and makes graffiti on any place of worship an aggravated offence.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 30–720 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Makes it an offence, with up to two years' prison or a $22,000 fine, to intentionally impede people entering or leaving a place of worship, or to intimidate, harass or threaten them, and lets police use move-on powers against demonstrations, protests and assemblies outside places of worship.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 28–7 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 23–620 Feb 2025 ↗20 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Amendment (Inciting Racial Hatred) Bill 2025Makes it a crime, with up to two years' prison or an $11,000 fine ($55,000 for a corporation), to intentionally incite hatred towards a person or group on the ground of race by a public act. It covers race only, not other attributes.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 20–9 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 19–920 Feb 2025 ↗
  • ✗Constitution Amendment (Rights and Freedoms) Bill 2023One of two private member's bills from John Ruddick (Libertarian Party) to write a right to free speech into the NSW Constitution, so that this or future governments could not pass laws curtailing open expression.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 7–3020 Mar 2024 ↗
  • ✓Crimes Amendment (Prosecution of Certain Offences) Bill 2023Removes the requirement that the Director of Public Prosecutions approve any prosecution for publicly threatening or inciting violence against people because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status or HIV/AIDS status, so police can lay charges themselves.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 34–530 Nov 2023 ↗

Drugs & law and order recorded votes

Votes on record · 34

  • ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill (No 2) 2026A package of justice changes: a child aged 14 or over must consent to the adult support person present when they speak to police, a new framework for residential rehabilitation bail conditions, the youth bail test in section 22C extended to April 2028, life sentences confirmed to mean the rest of the offender's life, and changes to sexual offences involving people with a cognitive impairment.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 28–5 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 25–524 Sep 2026 ↗
  • ✓Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026Raises penalties for failing to cooperate with the NSW Crime Commission, raises the maximum prison term for breaching a digital evidence access order from five to seven years, lets agencies match facial images against driver licence and photo card photos under the national identity-matching agreement, and changes how unredacted toll camera images can be collected and shared.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 24–9 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 24–822 Sep 2026 ↗24 Sep 2026 ↗
  • ✗Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Medical Cannabis and Driving Offences) Bill 2026Creates a separate offence for drivers registered with Transport for NSW as users of prescribed cannabis medicine who have THC, and no other drug or alcohol, in their system above a set concentration. They get warning letters for the first two detections before fines and licence sanctions apply. Impaired driving remains a serious offence, and the law is unchanged for other drivers.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 21–13 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 22–1315 Sep 2026 ↗17 Sep 2026 ↗
  • ✓Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Knife Scanning) Bill 2026Expands police knife wanding, the use of handheld metal detectors to scan people for knives, to major entertainment venues after a declaration, keeps the requirement for a declaration before any operation, and requires police to record and publish more information, including the demographics of people charged after being scanned.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 24–617 Sep 2026 ↗
  • –Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Good Character) Bill 2026Stops courts treating an offender's previous good character as a reason for a lighter sentence for any offence, going beyond the earlier reform, which covered only sexual offences. It requires a review after two years, including of the effect on domestic and family violence cases.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–44 Jun 2026 ↗
  • ✓Crimes and Summary Offences Amendment Bill 2025Adds offences for publicly engaging in Nazi conduct to the existing Nazi symbol offences, with up to 12 months' prison, or two years near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum, and makes clear that taking part in an authorised public assembly is no defence to other offences.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–24 Jun 2026 ↗
  • –Surveillance Devices Amendment (Public Interest Exceptions) Bill 2026Creates a public interest exception so law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies can receive and use recordings of private conversations or activities that may have been made unlawfully, and narrows the offence of possessing such a record to people who made it or who know it was unlawful and do not promptly hand it to an investigative body.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–226 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✓Surveillance Devices and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Lets people give recordings to investigative bodies such as police and anti-corruption agencies in the public interest, allows agencies to use listening and optical devices as other laws authorise, narrows the offence of possessing an unlawful recording, and supports police recording conversations with drivers.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–105 Feb 2026 ↗
  • ⇄Surveillance Devices and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Lets people give recordings to investigative bodies such as police and anti-corruption agencies in the public interest, allows agencies to use listening and optical devices as other laws authorise, narrows the offence of possessing an unlawful recording, and supports police recording conversations with drivers.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 13–175 Feb 2026 ↗
  • ✓Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Makes the largest changes to NSW firearms law in a generation, including restricting the types of firearms licensees may have, requiring licensees to be Australian citizens and club members, and tightening storage rules. It also lets police restrict public assemblies in declared areas, makes displaying a terrorist organisation's symbol an offence, and lets police require face coverings to be removed at assemblies.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 29–11 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 18–823 Dec 2025 ↗
  • ✓Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Lets police give a move-on direction to a person taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, protest or assembly in or near a place of worship who is intentionally blocking people entering or leaving it, or harassing, intimidating or threatening them.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 29–6 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 27–527 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Amendment (Standard of Proof) Bill 2025Lowers the standard of proof for disciplinary offences committed by prison inmates from beyond reasonable doubt to the balance of probabilities.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 30–620 Nov 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Amendment (Standard of Proof) Bill 2025Lowers the standard of proof for disciplinary offences committed by prison inmates from beyond reasonable doubt to the balance of probabilities.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 29–618 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Crimes Legislation Amendment (War Memorial Offences) Bill 2025Creates an aggravated offence of damaging or destroying a war memorial, with up to seven years' prison, and lets courts order offenders to pay compensation for damage to a war memorial on top of any penalty.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–411 Sep 2025 ↗
  • ✗Civil Liability Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse Liability) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) that would retrospectively make institutions such as churches vicariously liable for child sexual abuse by priests, clergy and volunteers acting under their authority, even though they are not employees, so survivors can sue the institution.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 9–244 Jun 2025 ↗
  • ✓Bail Amendment (Extension of Limitation on Bail In Certain Circumstances) Bill 2025Extends, to April 2028, the temporary rule that bail must be refused to a 14- to 17-year-old charged with a serious break and enter or car theft offence while on bail for another, unless the bail authority has a high degree of confidence they will not reoffend.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 22–520 Mar 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Legislation Amendment (Racial and Religious Hatred) Bill 2025Creates an aggravated offence, with up to two years' prison, of displaying a Nazi symbol on or near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum, confirms that graffiti is a 'public act' for these offences, makes hatred of a group an aggravating factor in sentencing, and makes graffiti on any place of worship an aggravated offence.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 30–720 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025Makes it an offence, with up to two years' prison or a $22,000 fine, to intentionally impede people entering or leaving a place of worship, or to intimidate, harass or threaten them, and lets police use move-on powers against demonstrations, protests and assemblies outside places of worship.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 28–7 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 23–620 Feb 2025 ↗20 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Crimes Amendment (Inciting Racial Hatred) Bill 2025Makes it a crime, with up to two years' prison or an $11,000 fine ($55,000 for a corporation), to intentionally incite hatred towards a person or group on the ground of race by a public act. It covers race only, not other attributes.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 20–9 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 19–920 Feb 2025 ↗
  • –Mental Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Strengthens oversight of forensic patients: confirms the Mental Health Review Tribunal can restrict their use of social media and online communications, changes who sits on the tribunal when it grants leave, and makes it easier for magistrates and judges to serve on the tribunal.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 27–518 Feb 2025 ↗
  • ✓Crimes Amendment (Obstructing A Railway) Bill 2024Lets the Local Court fine a person up to 200 penalty units, double the current default of 100 ($11,000), for intentionally obstructing a train on a railway. The maximum prison term stays at two years.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 28–621 Nov 2024 ↗
  • ✓Alcohol Consumption In Public Places (Liberalisation) Bill 2024A private member's bill from John Ruddick (Libertarian Party) that would give people a right to drink alcohol in public places such as parks and beaches, overriding local council alcohol bans, with exceptions for places of religious or cultural significance. Existing offences for antisocial behaviour would remain.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 18–2123 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✗Pill Testing Trial Bill 2023A private member's bill from Cate Faehrmann (Greens) that would set up a trial of pill testing (drug checking) services, setting out how, where and when they may operate, so people who use drugs can learn what a substance contains and receive harm-reduction advice and counselling.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 7–287 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✓Bail and Crimes Amendment Bill 2024For 12 months, requires bail to be refused to a young person aged 14 to 17 charged with a serious break and enter or car theft offence while on bail for another, unless the bail authority has a 'high degree of confidence' they will not commit a further serious offence. It also creates an offence of 'performance crime': posting material that advertises one's own offending.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 27–621 Mar 2024 ↗
  • ✓Crimes Amendment (Prosecution of Certain Offences) Bill 2023Removes the requirement that the Director of Public Prosecutions approve any prosecution for publicly threatening or inciting violence against people because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status or HIV/AIDS status, so police can lay charges themselves.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 34–530 Nov 2023 ↗
  • ✓Criminal Legislation Amendment (Knife Crimes) Bill 2023Doubles the maximum prison term for possessing or wielding a knife in a public place or school from two years to four, doubles the maximum fines, and moves the offences into the Crimes Act.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 29–629 Jun 2023 ↗

Gambling & gaming reform recorded votes

Votes on record · 1

  • ✓Electoral Funding Amendment (Registered Clubs) Bill 2023Makes registered clubs that operate poker machines, and their industry bodies, prohibited political donors from 1 July 2023, closing gaps in the existing ban on donations from the liquor and gambling industries.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 35–423 May 2023 ↗

Sex work decriminalisation recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

  • ✗Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Alex Greenwich (independent, Sydney) that would widen the Anti-Discrimination Act to cover sexuality, variations of sex characteristics and sex workers, remove exemptions for private schools, limit religious bodies' employment exemptions to roles relevant to religious practice, and change trans people's access to updated documents, among many other changes.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 17–13 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 15–1217 Oct 2024 ↗17 Oct 2024 ↗

First Nations & treaty recorded votes

Votes on record · 2

  • ✓Crown Land Management Amendment (Statutory Review) Bill 2026Sets clear goals for using and managing Crown land, gives more support to its land managers, creates a framework to transfer Crown land to native title groups more easily, and adds compliance tools and standard conditions for tenures.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 28–7 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 28–615 Sep 2026 ↗15 Sep 2026 ↗

Nuclear & uranium recorded votes

Votes on record · 1

  • ✓Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from John Ruddick (Libertarian Party) that would repeal the NSW law banning uranium mining and nuclear facilities, removing the prohibition on nuclear power in the State.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–196 May 2026 ↗

Integrity & anti-corruption recorded votes

Votes on record · 5

  • –Surveillance Devices Amendment (Public Interest Exceptions) Bill 2026Creates a public interest exception so law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies can receive and use recordings of private conversations or activities that may have been made unlawfully, and narrows the offence of possessing such a record to people who made it or who know it was unlawful and do not promptly hand it to an investigative body.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–226 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✓Parliamentary Evidence Amendment (Attendance of Witnesses) Bill 2026A private member's bill from Damien Tudehope (Liberal) that would give the President or the Speaker, instead of a judge, the power to have a witness who refuses to appear before Parliament or a committee arrested, after the Court of Appeal struck down the existing power.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–1317 Mar 2026 ↗
  • ✓Surveillance Devices and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Lets people give recordings to investigative bodies such as police and anti-corruption agencies in the public interest, allows agencies to use listening and optical devices as other laws authorise, narrows the offence of possessing an unlawful recording, and supports police recording conversations with drivers.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 25–105 Feb 2026 ↗
  • ⇄Surveillance Devices and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Lets people give recordings to investigative bodies such as police and anti-corruption agencies in the public interest, allows agencies to use listening and optical devices as other laws authorise, narrows the offence of possessing an unlawful recording, and supports police recording conversations with drivers.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 13–175 Feb 2026 ↗
  • ✓Electoral Funding Amendment (Registered Clubs) Bill 2023Makes registered clubs that operate poker machines, and their industry bodies, prohibited political donors from 1 July 2023, closing gaps in the existing ban on donations from the liquor and gambling industries.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 35–423 May 2023 ↗

Housing & planning recorded votes

Votes on record · 11

  • ✓Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025Makes the Housing Delivery Authority pathway for large projects permanent, widens complying development and minor modifications (with a 14-day decision time), creates a Development Coordination Authority, removes the regionally significant development pathway and phases out Sydney district and regional planning panels.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 34–5 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 24–523 Oct 2025 ↗11 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Offsets Scheme) Bill 2024Requires developers to take steps to avoid harm to biodiversity first, moves the offsets scheme towards net positive outcomes over time, limits when developers can pay into the Biodiversity Conservation Fund instead of offsetting, adds public registers and accountability for assessors, and allows less red tape for some low-impact local development.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 24–521 Nov 2024 ↗
  • ✓Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (State Significant Development) Bill 2024Clarifies what a consent authority must assess for a State significant development application, after the Court of Appeal held that the Independent Planning Commission should have considered the impacts of a transmission line connected to the Bowdens silver mine, restoring the previous practice without overturning that decision.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to 28–521 Nov 2024 ↗
  • ✓Strata Managing Agents Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Requires strata managing agents to disclose more to owners corporations, more often, including conflicts of interest and insurance commissions, bans commissions on insurance that owners arrange themselves, and raises maximum penalties to 500 penalty units for corporations.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 27–519 Sep 2024 ↗
  • ✓Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Disallowance of Transport Oriented Development Sepp) Bill 2024A private member's bill from Scott Farlow (Liberal, for the Opposition) that would make the Transport Oriented Development State Environmental Planning Policy, which allows more housing near transport hubs, subject to disallowance by Parliament.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 12–2514 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✗Greater Cities Commission Repeal Bill 2023Abolishes the Greater Cities Commission, which planned Sydney and surrounding cities, and gives its strategic planning functions to the secretary of the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure from 2024.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 20–1730 Nov 2023 ↗
  • ✗Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Housing and Productivity Contributions) Bill 2023Replaces the existing system with a housing and productivity contribution paid on new homes and other development from 1 October 2023, set at $12,000 per detached house or townhouse in Greater Sydney and $8,000 in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, Central Coast and lower Hunter. It also creates a separate transport infrastructure charge where public transport projects add development capacity.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–1527 Jun 2023 ↗
  • ✓Residential Tenancies Amendment (Rental Fairness) Bill 2023Extends the ban on soliciting rent bids to owners and third parties, not just agents, and bars rental application tools from inviting higher offers, with fines for breaches. It also gives the powers needed to set up a portable bond scheme, so renters can move their bond to a new home.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 29–522 Jun 2023 ↗
  • ✗First Home Buyer Legislation Amendment Bill 2023Raises the thresholds for first home buyer stamp duty relief from 1 July 2023, targeting homes up to $1 million with more help above $650,000, doubles the residence requirement to 12 months, and closes the former government's First Home Buyer Choice option of paying an annual property tax instead of stamp duty.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–171 Jun 2023 ↗

Health recorded votes

Votes on record · 5

  • ✗Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025A private member's bill from Amanda Cohn (Greens) that would require the Health Minister to ensure abortion services are available within a reasonable distance of people's homes across NSW, with public information about access, let endorsed midwives and nurse practitioners provide early medical abortion, and remove the requirement to notify each termination to the Health Secretary.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 24–16 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 25–157 May 2025 ↗8 May 2025 ↗
  • –Mental Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Strengthens oversight of forensic patients: confirms the Mental Health Review Tribunal can restrict their use of social media and online communications, changes who sits on the tribunal when it grants leave, and makes it easier for magistrates and judges to serve on the tribunal.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 27–518 Feb 2025 ↗
  • ✗Health Insurance Levies Amendment Bill 2024Raises the levy on private health insurers so the State recovers the cost of private patients in public hospital single rooms, which the largest insurers pay only the shared-room rate for, and lets the Treasurer increase it if negotiations with insurers fail.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–1724 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✗Pill Testing Trial Bill 2023A private member's bill from Cate Faehrmann (Greens) that would set up a trial of pill testing (drug checking) services, setting out how, where and when they may operate, so people who use drugs can learn what a substance contains and receive harm-reduction advice and counselling.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 7–287 Aug 2024 ↗

Transport & infrastructure recorded votes

Votes on record · 6

  • ✗Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Medical Cannabis and Driving Offences) Bill 2026Creates a separate offence for drivers registered with Transport for NSW as users of prescribed cannabis medicine who have THC, and no other drug or alcohol, in their system above a set concentration. They get warning letters for the first two detections before fines and licence sanctions apply. Impaired driving remains a serious offence, and the law is unchanged for other drivers.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 21–13 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 22–1315 Sep 2026 ↗17 Sep 2026 ↗
  • ✓Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Speed Camera Detection) Bill 2024Lets average speed cameras be used to prove a speeding offence by any vehicle, not just heavy vehicles, using the average speed recorded between two points as evidence of the vehicle's speed.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 27–715 Oct 2024 ↗
  • ✗Ports and Maritime Administration Amendment Bill 2024Makes changes to support safety at NSW ports, including daily continuing offences so cargo owners who hold dangerous goods at ports past the time limit keep accruing penalties, and lets Transport for NSW give registration details to private port operators to issue fines.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 23–1719 Sep 2024 ↗
  • ✗Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Housing and Productivity Contributions) Bill 2023Replaces the existing system with a housing and productivity contribution paid on new homes and other development from 1 October 2023, set at $12,000 per detached house or townhouse in Greater Sydney and $8,000 in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, Central Coast and lower Hunter. It also creates a separate transport infrastructure charge where public transport projects add development capacity.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–1527 Jun 2023 ↗

Energy recorded votes

Votes on record · 4

  • ✓Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from John Ruddick (Libertarian Party) that would repeal the NSW law banning uranium mining and nuclear facilities, removing the prohibition on nuclear power in the State.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 21–196 May 2026 ↗
  • ✓Electricity Infrastructure Investment Amendment (Priority Network Projects) Bill 2025Makes the power to direct network operators to build priority transmission projects more flexible, lets more projects come within it, including those responding to energy security or reliability shortfalls, and stops revenue determinations being delayed, to support the move to renewable energy.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 28–107 Aug 2025 ↗
  • ✗Petroleum (Onshore) Amendment (Liverpool Plains Prohibition) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) that would amend the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 and planning law to prohibit prospecting for or mining coal seam gas, and development for those purposes, in the Liverpool Plains.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 6–2914 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✓Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023Puts into law targets to cut NSW greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, sets an objective for adapting to climate change, and creates an independent Net Zero Commission to monitor progress and report to Parliament each year.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–521 Nov 2023 ↗

Environment & water recorded votes

Votes on record · 11

  • ✗Water Management Amendment (Easements for Inundation) Bill 2025Lets easements be created that allow river operators to flood private land for environmental water flows under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and lets Commonwealth and interstate water authorities benefit from them if needed for future projects.Second and third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 19–167 May 2026 ↗
  • –Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from Joe McGirr (independent, Wagga Wagga) that would repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, which recognises the heritage value of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, keeping the current management plan under the National Parks and Wildlife Act until a transition date.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 19–727 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from Joe McGirr (independent, Wagga Wagga) that would repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, which recognises the heritage value of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, keeping the current management plan under the National Parks and Wildlife Act until a transition date.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 24–919 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✗Water Management Legislation Amendment (Stronger Enforcement and Penalties) Bill 2025Raises the maximum penalties that regulations can set for water offences from $2,200 to $22,000 for corporations and $11,000 for individuals, adds administrative penalties, lets courts cancel a convicted person's water licence and bar them from applying for a set period, and clarifies the powers of the Natural Resources Access Regulator.New South Wales · Legislative Council · Second reading Motion agreed to. 17–15 · Third reading Motion agreed to. 18–139 Sep 2025 ↗11 Sep 2025 ↗
  • ✓Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Offsets Scheme) Bill 2024Requires developers to take steps to avoid harm to biodiversity first, moves the offsets scheme towards net positive outcomes over time, limits when developers can pay into the Biodiversity Conservation Fund instead of offsetting, adds public registers and accountability for assessors, and allows less red tape for some low-impact local development.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 24–521 Nov 2024 ↗
  • ✗Petroleum (Onshore) Amendment (Liverpool Plains Prohibition) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) that would amend the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 and planning law to prohibit prospecting for or mining coal seam gas, and development for those purposes, in the Liverpool Plains.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 6–2914 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✓Water Management Amendment (Central Coast Council) Bill 2024Removes Central Coast Council as a water supply authority under the Water Management Act and repeals the Central Coast Water Corporation Act, giving the council a streamlined framework for running its water and sewerage business, with stronger governance, in response to the public inquiry into the council.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 32–68 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✓Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023Puts into law targets to cut NSW greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, sets an objective for adapting to climate change, and creates an independent Net Zero Commission to monitor progress and report to Parliament each year.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 31–521 Nov 2023 ↗
  • ✓Constitution Amendment (Sydney Water and Hunter Water) Bill 2023Adds a part to the NSW Constitution so that Sydney Water, Hunter Water or their main undertakings can be sold or disposed of only with the explicit support of a majority of members of both Houses, closing off a sale approved by the two shareholding Ministers alone. Commercial arrangements that involve no sale are still allowed.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 32–51 Jun 2023 ↗

Animal welfare recorded votes

Votes on record · 4

  • –Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from Joe McGirr (independent, Wagga Wagga) that would repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, which recognises the heritage value of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, keeping the current management plan under the National Parks and Wildlife Act until a transition date.Third reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 19–727 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✓Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Repeal Bill 2025A private member's bill from Joe McGirr (independent, Wagga Wagga) that would repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, which recognises the heritage value of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park, keeping the current management plan under the National Parks and Wildlife Act until a transition date.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 24–919 Nov 2025 ↗
  • ✗Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Independent Office of Animal Welfare) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Abigail Boyd (Greens) that would establish an Independent Office of Animal Welfare to take over regulation and oversight of animal welfare in NSW from the Department of Primary Industries.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion negatived. 6–2814 Aug 2024 ↗
  • ✗Animal Research Amendment (Prohibition of Forced Swim Tests and Forced Smoke Inhalation Experiments) Bill 2023A private member's bill from Emma Hurst (Animal Justice Party) that amends the Animal Research Act 1985 so that no animal research authority may authorise a forced swim test or a forced smoke inhalation experiment, including with e-cigarette vapour.Second reading · New South Wales · Legislative Council · Motion agreed to. 22–137 Feb 2024 ↗

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