The Nationals — voting record
How The Nationals is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 36 propositions scored for the 2022 election.
- Climate change policy should include a carbon pricing mechanism to provide financial incentives for companies to produce less carbon emissions
- Conservation of Australia's marine environments should be increased, such as by protecting them from offshore oil and gas drilling
- Renewable energy initiatives should receive more taxpayer funding
- Australia's intelligence agencies should be subjected to greater oversight and transparency in relation to their actions and powers
- Australian-based industries operating in internationally competitive markets should receive government support to remain in Australia
- Asylum seekers who arrive by boat should be held offshore while their applications are processed
- The rights of individuals and organisations to communicate about political issues should be protected and increased
- The ABC and SBS should receive less taxpayer funding
- Government data and documents should be made more easily accessible to the public and Parliament
- Australia's future relationship with the People's Republic of China should be subjected to greater transparency and scrutiny
- Climate change action should be treated as a matter of urgency
- Corporations with a revenue of more than $100m/yr should be required to publicly disclose certain financial information which is normally confidential, such as how much tax they paid
- Donations to political parties should be capped and subjected to greater transparency
- An anti-corruption commission, similar to the NSW ICAC, should be established at the federal level
- It should be harder for corporations and wealthy individuals to aggressively minimise their Australian tax obligations
- Forest and bush habitats should be better protected from commercial logging and agricultural clearing through increased government regulation, surveillance and enforcement
- Australia's foreign aid budget should be increased from 0.22% of Gross National Income (GNI), to be more inline with the UN target of 0.7% of GNI
- There should be a time limit on how long asylum seekers can be detained for while their claims are being processed
- The Australian Government should increase its investment and support for the Australian coal industry
- Terminally ill people should have access to medicinal cannabis products
- Greater resources should be made available to achieve the Closing the Gap targets, which are intended to reduce disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Australia's biodiversity should be better protected through stronger conservation regulation
- Government ministers should not be allowed to take up lobbying positions within 5 years of leaving Parliament
- Protections for people who identify as LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) should be increased, and exemptions which permit discrimination against LGBTI people should be removed
- Religious institutions should have the right to discriminate against people (e.g. based on their sexuality or gender) if compelled by their religious teachings
- The Cashless Debit Card for welfare recipients (which can't be used to buy alcohol or gambling products) should be voluntary
- Instead of gathering evidence from their own specialists, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) recipients should be required to complete an independent assessment in order to determine appropriate funding
- Schools students should recite a pledge of loyalty to Australia, similar to the Australian citizenship pledge
- Certain crimes, such as child sex offences, should attract mandatory minimum sentences
- Taxpayer funding of schools should be increased, and targeted to schools in the public system
- University degrees which will support jobs in priority areas (e.g. maths, science, engineering, health) should be made more affordable at the expense of degrees in other subject areas (e.g. arts, law, economics)
- Australians stranded overseas due to COVID-19 should have been better supported by the Australian Government, such as through increasing its flight caps
- A First Nations Voice to Parliament should be enshrined in the Australian Constitution, as called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart
- The recommendations of the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody should be implemented in full in order to address the ongoing issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody
- Dedicated quarantine facilitiates should have been built in every state and territory as part of the Australian Government's COVID-19 pandemic response
- Protections for women in the workplace in respect to discrimination and harassment should be increased
This party is scored on its recorded parliamentary votes, sourced from They Vote For You, not on its campaign statements. Each row links to the divisions behind it. See how the scoring works and all parties, 2022.