Centre Alliance — voting record
How Centre Alliance is recorded voting in federal parliament across the 27 propositions scored for the 2028 election.
For scoring, this record combines Centre Alliance with Nick Xenophon Team, treated as one continuous party (see methodology).
- Expand law-enforcement surveillance powers, even where this narrows personal privacy.
- Tighten consumer protection laws, even where this increases regulation on business.
- Increase the indexation applied to student (HECS-HELP) debts, even where this raises what graduates repay.
- Strengthen legal protections for whistleblowers, even where this risks disclosing sensitive information.
- Restrict native-forest logging, even where this reduces timber supply and forestry jobs.
- Strengthen gun control laws, even where this restricts lawful firearm owners.
- Strengthen citizens' privacy protections, even where this limits law-enforcement access to data.
- Maintain or increase government support for the coal industry, even where this raises emissions.
- Do more to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, even where this requires targeted programs and funding.
- Maintain or increase defence spending, even where this commits substantial public funds.
- Take stronger action to prevent animal and plant extinctions, even where this constrains land use and development.
- Expand publicly funded dental care, even where this increases health spending.
- Increase legal protections for LGBTI people, even where this narrows some religious exemptions.
- Strengthen legal rights and protections for transgender people, even where this narrows some religious or single-sex exemptions.
- Require minimum sentences for some crimes, accepting less judicial discretion.
- Increase support for rural and regional Australia, even where this directs funding away from cities.
- Increase the cost of humanities university degrees, even where this deters some students.
- End all federal government investment in fossil fuels, even where this affects energy supply and jobs.
- Commit to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, accepting higher short-term costs to get there.
- Apply a stricter character test for Australian visas, even where this refuses more applicants.
- Reduce tax concessions that mainly benefit wealthier Australians, even where this affects investment incentives.
- Make TAFE education fee-free, even where this increases government spending.
- Criminalise hate speech, even where this limits free expression.
- Expand the questioning powers of intelligence agencies, even where this reduces civil liberties.
- Expand the right to protest and speak out on public-interest issues, even where this limits public-order and secrecy laws.
- Give people a clearer right to reasons for government decisions and to challenge them in court, even where this adds cost and delay to government.
- Strengthen protections for the rights of children in the criminal justice system, even where this limits tougher responses to youth crime.
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, 2028.