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.
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Economy & tax recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Short Stay Levy Bill 2026Imposes a 5 per cent levy on short-stay accommodation booked through an online booking platform for stays of under 28 days, paid by the platform. Hotels, motels, caravan parks, hostels, bed and breakfasts, direct bookings and a room let in the owner's own home are excluded. The Treasurer said the revenue would help fund assistance for first home buyers.7 May 2026 ↗
Voluntary assisted dying official record
Recorded vote: in the House of Assembly division on the second reading of the End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020 on 4 December 2020, Rosalie Woodruff (listed as 'Dr Woodruff') voted Aye, in favour. The bill passed 17 Ayes to 7 Noes.
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy news report
As Greens leader Woodruff said the party would "move that Parliament ban conversion practices and fully implement" the Law Reform Institute recommendations, and criticised the Liberal government's draft bill as one that "would legitimise conversion practices" and increase "trauma, pain and suffering of LGBTIQA+ people"; in the 2024 Equality Tasmania survey the Greens (Woodruff responding) backed a real conversion-practices ban, opposed weakening gender-recognition laws, and supported evidence-based care for trans and gender-diverse youth. (Stated positions.)
Religious freedom own statement
On 15 May 2024 Woodruff questioned the Premier in Parliament about Archbishop Porteous urging parents to lobby MPs to weaken the Anti-Discrimination Act and oppose a ban on conversion practices, expressing concern that the Act should not be weakened. Stated position.
Drugs & law and order own statement
Stated position: Greens leader Woodruff supports legalising and regulating cannabis, telling parliament on 17 March 2021 'It is well past time to legalise cannabis and regulate it.' She introduced a bill to decriminalise personal use of small quantities of drugs and directing users to treatment. She opposed the government's mandatory minimum sentencing bill for child sex offences, saying in November 2023 that 'Every single expert on this matter ... have opposed previous versions of this bill because it will increase harms for victim-survivors.'
- Medical Cannabis Access Scheme and Legalisation
- Minor parties lead Tasmania drug decriminalisation debate
- Tasmania on path to introduce mandatory child sex abuse sentences
Votes on record · 1
- ✗Sentencing Amendment (Publication of Criminal Activity) Bill 2026Makes it an aggravating factor at sentencing that the offender published, or caused to be published, statements, images or video about the offence or a victim ("posting and boasting"), where a reasonable person would think it likely to humiliate, intimidate or victimise a victim, or it was done to gain notoriety, boast about or glorify the offence, or encourage others to commit it. It is to be reviewed after five years.1 Sep 2026 ↗
Native forest logging own statement
Tasmanian Greens leader Dr Woodruff calls for ending native forest logging, arguing 'In a biodiversity and climate crisis, native forest logging simply shouldn't continue' and that it is 'a loss-making industry that survives only on billions in public subsidies... This must end.' She has criticised the Forest Practices Authority and Liberal plans to continue logging via a bilateral agreement.
Integrity & anti-corruption recorded votes
Votes on record · 3
- ✗Tasmanian Community Fund Amendment Bill 2025Requires the Tasmanian Community Fund's board to act apolitically and impartially, carry out and record due diligence, follow a best-practice grants framework with an independent audit every four years, keep records under the Archives Act, and consult on and report against a strategic plan. Its grants become open to Public Accounts Committee scrutiny. The government brought it in after the Auditor-General's August 2024 report on the fund's grant to Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition.18 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✗Local Government Amendment (Targeted Reform) Bill 2026Cuts the number of councillors by 50 to 213 statewide (nine on the five largest councils, seven on the rest) under a new allowance structure reviewed every four years. The Director of Local Government can refer serious councillor misconduct to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which can dismiss a councillor and disqualify them for up to seven years. The minister can appoint temporary advisers to a council, and councillors must complete training in their first year.16 Apr 2026 ↗
- ✓Public Accounts Committee Amendment Bill 2025Enlarges Parliament's Public Accounts Committee from six members to eight, four from each House, requires the House of Assembly's members to include at least one from every party with three or more members in the House, and raises the quorum from four to six.23 Sep 2025 ↗
Housing & planning recorded votes
Votes on record · 5
- ✗Housing Land Supply (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2026Speeds up rezoning government land for housing under the Housing Land Supply Act. An order no longer waits for both Houses' five-sitting-day disallowance period to pass before it is made; it is made first and can be disallowed within 15 days, like a regulation. The State Planning Office can draft orders itself. It also updates an outdated reference in the Community Housing Providers law.18 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Short Stay Levy Bill 2026Imposes a 5 per cent levy on short-stay accommodation booked through an online booking platform for stays of under 28 days, paid by the platform. Hotels, motels, caravan parks, hostels, bed and breakfasts, direct bookings and a room let in the owner's own home are excluded. The Treasurer said the revenue would help fund assistance for first home buyers.7 May 2026 ↗
- ✗Building Amendment Bill 2026Ends the automatic adoption in Tasmania of each new edition of the National Construction Code, so that regulations can delay, vary or not implement future editions, and freezes the adoption of the 2025 edition, a government commitment at the 2025 election.14 Apr 2026 ↗
- ✗University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2025Stops the University of Tasmania disposing of land at its Sandy Bay campus without the approval of both Houses of Parliament. The land above Churchill Avenue is left out of that protection and rezoned from Particular Purpose Zone 3 to Inner Residential, so the university can keep a STEM precinct at Sandy Bay without a council rezoning.3 Dec 2025 ↗
Education recorded votes
Votes on record · 2
- ✗University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2025Stops the University of Tasmania disposing of land at its Sandy Bay campus without the approval of both Houses of Parliament. The land above Churchill Avenue is left out of that protection and rezoned from Particular Purpose Zone 3 to Inner Residential, so the university can keep a STEM precinct at Sandy Bay without a council rezoning.3 Dec 2025 ↗
Environment & water own statement
Tasmanian Greens MP (and Safe Climate spokesperson) Rosalie Woodruff pressed the government to act on the independent review of the Climate Change (State Action) Act, calling for legislated sector emissions targets 'so the state's carbon emissions actually come down' and for restoration of 'the independent climate body that you axed more than a decade ago to increase accountability of government.' She urged the government to commit to amending the Act within the year.
Animal welfare own statement
Leader of the Tasmanian Greens, a long-time campaigner for ending greyhound racing. She spoke in support of the greyhound racing ban bill in the House of Assembly; the Greens describe themselves as having led the parliamentary fight to end the industry. Supports ending greyhound racing.
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Greyhound Racing Legislation Amendments (Phasing Out Reform) Bill 2025Ends greyhound racing in Tasmania on 30 June 2029. Until then it bans breeding racing greyhounds, deems a greyhound retired at six or after a year without racing, needs Tasracing's consent to transfer or destroy one, and has the Racing Integrity Commissioner prepare a closure plan. After that date, racing greyhounds, or keeping or breeding a dog for racing, becomes an offence under the Animal Welfare Act; greyhounds can still be kept as pets.4 Dec 2025 ↗
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.