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Where Australian parties stand on abortion & reproductive policy

9 parties on record · party platforms in their own words

Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.

Australian Greens party platform

The platform states reproductive rights are human rights and supports the right to choose safe, legal abortion, committing to funding so all public hospitals provide free abortion services and access does not depend on location, alongside expanded subsidised contraception.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform

The party's Pro-Life policy states that human life begins in the womb and proposes reducing gestational limits for abortion, banning sex-selective abortion, and requiring counselling for women considering an abortion. It also proposes requiring neonatal care for babies born alive during an abortion, restoring doctors' full right to conscientious objection, and mandating reporting of abortion rates.

Victorian Socialists party platform

The platform states support for the right to control one's body and reproductive function "at any point in a pregnancy," and calls to enshrine publicly funded abortion and contraception, funding GP training and nurse-led abortion care models to expand access.

Animal Justice Party party platform

The party states access to abortion and contraception is a fundamental component of a person's right to make reproductive choices, that government has a responsibility to provide safe, affordable and accessible contraception and abortion services as part of the public health system, and supports improved access for rural, regional and diverse communities.

Family First Party party platform

Family First states that human life begins at conception and should be protected from that moment until natural death, and it supports banning late-term abortion alongside support for women in crisis pregnancies through services such as pregnancy support and adoption pathways.

Libertarian Party party platform

The party's statement of principles holds that "freedom over one's own body" includes the freedom to control one's own fertility and to have children.

Katter's Australian Party party platform

The platform states that Katter's Australian Party was founded on Christian values and believes that life is precious, and it opposed a federal Labor proposal to withhold health funding from states that do not require public hospitals to perform abortions. It has also expressed opposition to expansions of abortion access in Queensland.

Australian Christians party platform

The party states human life is sacred from the moment of conception and that it opposes abortion as bringing harm to both mother and child; it commits to repealing amendments that approved abortion on demand up to birth, removed counselling for mothers, and denied protection for babies surviving abortion.

Democratic Labour Party party platform

The party states it affirms the value and inalienable dignity of human life and supports life from conception through to natural death; its materials also describe the Infant Viability Bill it introduced, which would have ended abortion from the 24th week of pregnancy, required care for infants born alive with intent to save their lives, and required practical support for mothers presenting in distress in later pregnancy.

Recorded divisions on abortion & reproductive policy · 16

Every recorded vote on a bill filed under this issue, in each parliament the site holds a division record for — second and third readings, plus any amendment listed with a reason. How each member voted is on their record.

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.