Where parties stand — 2025 Federal Election

The 50 parliamentary propositions behind the 2025 how2vote scoring. Open any one to see how every party is recorded voting on it.

• Allow live animal export and place minimal restrictions on it.
• Increase the powers and influence of trade unions in workplace relations.
• Introduce temporary protection visas for refugees.
• Increase the protection of Australia's fresh water resources, including its river and groundwater systems.
• Increase the protection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage sites.
• Limit the availability of government social security payments.
• Index HECS-HELP debts to the Bond rate instead of the generally lower Consumer Price Index rate.
• Use legislation to reduce the gap in income between women and men and ensures both sexes are paid equally well.
• Restrict the size and type of political donations to reduce actual or perceived corruption.
• Increase access to medicinal cannabis products.
• Commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 as part of Australia's efforts to address climate change.
• Commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2035 as part of Australia's efforts to address climate change.
• Increase funding for the legal assistance sector (Legal Aid, community legal centres, etc.).
• Increase federal investment in public housing.
• Expand publicly funded dental care.
• Make deliberate wage theft a criminal offence.
• Protect Australia's logging industry and the jobs it represents.
• Introduce laws to prohibit corporations from engaging in conduct that is likely to result in excessive prices for goods and services for consumers.
• There should be a national digital identification system in Australia.
• Support and increase investment for the Australian coal industry.
• Increase legal protections for people who identify as LGBTIQA+.
• Increase the Youth Allowance rate to ensure that it covers basic living costs.
• The Minister should have the power to cap international student numbers at universities.
• Put the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) into administration.
• Make more subsidised childcare hours available to families.
• Make the cashless debit card program voluntary so that people are not forced to participate in it.
• Close the Nauru Regional Processing Centre and stop all Nauru-based processing of people's claims for asylum.
• There should be more scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force both in Australia and overseas.
• Decrease government funding for private schools.
• Implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full, including an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice and a Makarrata Commission for agreement-making and truth-telling.
• Increase funding for initiatives that support rural and regional communities.
• Put a ban on new thermal coal mines opening in Australia.
• Substantially increase the cost of humanities degrees at university.
• Increase workplace protections, for example, by ensuring there are adequate dispute resolution processes available.
• Extend the Cashless Debit Card program, which means welfare recipient's cannot use payments to purchase alcohol or withdraw cash.
• Ban pay secrecy clauses so that employees can freely discuss and compare their pay with others.
• Give government the power to put a limit on gas prices in order to address rising electricity costs.
• Let people ask for reasons for government decisions and challenge them if they were made unlawfully.
• Permit access to gender affirming healthcare for transgender people under the age of eighteen.
• The federal government should call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
• Ban all new fossil fuel projects.
• Introduce a permanent Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) to encourage more permanent migration to Australia from Pacific Island countries.
• Allow the Home Affairs Minister to seek court orders stripping dual nationals of Australian citizenship for terrorism offences.
• Amend the law to extend paid parental leave to up to 12 months by 2030.
• Support Build to Rent (BTR) with tax incentives, so as to encourage the development of more multi-apartment buildings where the apartments are rented out.
• Introduce a new vehicle efficiency standard (also known as a fuel efficiency or a vehicle carbon emissions standard).
• Work to address homelessness in specific vulnerable groups, such as older women and First Nations people.
• Amend laws and policies to meet the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement.
• Create fee-free places at TAFE for Australians.
• Reduce the tax rate on the lowest taxable income bracket (i.e., the tax on income between $18,201 and $45,000).

Each proposition links to the parliamentary divisions behind it on They Vote For You. Positions are the recorded voting record — how2vote takes no side on any proposition.