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Where Australian parties stand on drugs & law and order

15 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.

Liberal Party party platform

The party's plan states a Coalition government would introduce new laws to disrupt organised crime syndicates, harmonise national drug laws, upgrade border screening and detection, and establish a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team backed by $355 million in additional resourcing, supported by dedicated AFP teams in each state and territory.

Australian Greens party platform

The platform calls for decriminalising personal use and possession of drugs, treating drug use as a health issue, and expanding harm-reduction services such as supervised injecting facilities, drug checking and needle/syringe programs, alongside expunging past convictions for conduct that becomes decriminalised.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform

The party's crime policy advocates strict sentencing guidelines and amendments to bail laws to keep dangerous repeat offenders off the streets, stating the presumption of innocence must be balanced by a presumption of public safety. It also supports increased youth detention capacity and tougher sentencing for gun crimes and traffickers.

Victorian Socialists party platform

The platform calls to decriminalise possession and non-commercial production/small-scale distribution of drugs for personal use, legalise a regulated and taxed cannabis market for adult use, expand publicly funded treatment facilities, and release and expunge the records of prisoners convicted of nonviolent drug offences; it also calls to divert police and state surveillance funding into social services.

The Nationals party platform

The party's plan commits to tough new laws to disrupt organised criminal syndicates, streamlined proceeds-of-crime and unexplained wealth laws, harmonised national drug laws, a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team backed by $355 million, upgraded border drug screening and detection, and measures targeting date-rape drugs used in drink spiking.

Animal Justice Party party platform

The party supports decriminalising the use of cannabis and regulating a lawful, safe supply in a similar manner to tobacco or alcohol, with enforcement focused on producers and suppliers rather than consumers, and supports further investigation of medicinal cannabis for both humans and animals.

Family First Party party platform

Family First opposes legalising drugs and supports programs to deter drug use and assist people battling addiction, alongside a well-resourced police force, an independent judiciary, sentencing that reflects community expectations for serious crimes, and early-intervention rehabilitation programs.

Libertarian Party party platform

The party supports legalising cannabis for adult use so people can make their own choices without criminal penalty, and calls for driving-law reform so impairment is accurately assessed rather than prescribed medicinal cannabis users being penalised solely for THC presence.

Legalise Cannabis Party party platform

The party proposes legal regulation of cannabis in three stages modelled on the ACT, treating cannabis similarly to alcohol and tobacco for labelling and advertising; adults could possess up to 50 grams, cultivate up to six plants per household and gift up to 50 grams socially, with commercial sale later phased in through small-scale state-licensed growers and retailers. It also calls for an immediate moratorium on arrests of cannabis consumers, expungement of historical personal-use cannabis criminal records, and outlawing police strip searches for personal-use cannabis, which it describes as a human rights violation.

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party party platform

The platform states that harm minimisation without compulsory rehabilitation is a failed strategy, and calls for increased drug education alongside police powers to deal with offensive and violent behaviour. It states support for truth in sentencing and mandatory minimum sentences, served consecutively, for crimes committed with a weapon or firearm.

Katter's Australian Party party platform

The platform's Relocation Sentencing policy proposes that eligible young offenders aged 10 to 17 be sent to remote, purpose-built agricultural and rehabilitative facilities (capped at around 30 young people, separated by age and sex) as an alternative approach intended to reduce youth crime and reoffending.

Centre Alliance party platform

States personal drug use should be treated primarily as a health issue, with well-funded (and in some circumstances mandatory) rehabilitation, alongside modified trafficking legislation enabling rapid asset seizure and improved prison rehabilitation programs.

Australian Christians party platform

The party's Drugs and Alcohol Policy envisions a "Drug Free Australia" drawing on the Swedish model, taking a zero-tolerance stance toward illicit drugs while prioritising rehabilitation and liberation from addiction, supporting stringent pharmaceutical oversight of medical marijuana, and pointing to France's alcohol advertising ban as an example; the party also states government's primary responsibility is protecting citizens through just punishment and restitution to victims of crime.

Democratic Labour Party party platform

The party pledges to repeal "permissive" drug laws, abolish "safe injecting rooms," and punish illegal hard drug possession with compulsory detoxification via a mandatory choice of prison or rehabilitation, with incarceration for non-compliance; it also proposes mandatory jail terms with 75%-of-sentence minimum non-parole periods for violent crimes and mandatory life sentences for three-time violent offenders.

United Australia Party party platform

The party's national policy includes encouraging community-based and other crime prevention programs and reinforcing the importance of law and order in the community, and it has campaigned for more police, expanded CCTV surveillance and re-education programs for young offenders.

Recorded divisions on drugs & law and order · 130

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.