Australian Conservatives — voting record
How Australian Conservatives is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 28 propositions scored for the 2025 election.
For scoring, Australian Conservatives is combined with Family First, treated as one continuous party (see methodology).
- 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.
- Increase funding for the legal assistance sector (Legal Aid, community legal centres, etc.).
- Increase federal investment in public housing.
- Expand publicly funded dental care.
- Protect Australia's logging industry and the jobs it represents.
- 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.
- 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.
- Put a ban on new thermal coal mines opening in Australia.
- Ban all new fossil fuel projects.
- 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.
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, 2025.