Fatima PAYMAN — voting record
How Fatima PAYMAN is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 43 propositions scored for the 2025 election.
- 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.
- 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.
- Put the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) into administration.
- Make more subsidised childcare hours available to families.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 independent 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.