Increasing investment in the coal industry
People who support this policy believe that the federal government should maintain or increase its investment in and support for the Australian coal industry.
View on They Vote For You →How each party's members voted
Each bar is 100% of a party's current members in the House of Representatives whom They Vote For You places in one of its seven agreement groups for this policy (its own categories, shown as published). Bars show percentages of members, not vote totals; the number beside each bar is how many members that is. Members They Vote For You says haven't cast enough votes on the policy are counted separately, not in the bars.
- Consistently against
- Almost always against
- Generally against
- Mixture
- Generally for
- Almost always for
- Consistently for
Labor
43 members+48 not enough votes
Independent
5 members+3 not enough votes
Nationals
1 member+7 not enough votes
Katter's Australian
1 member
Liberal
1 member+13 not enough votes
Greens
1 member
LNP0 members+8 not enough votes
One Nation0 members+1 not enough votes
Party breakdown as a table (number of members in each group)
| Party | Consistently against | Almost always against | Generally against | Mixture | Generally for | Almost always for | Consistently for | Not enough votes | Members in bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 0 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 43 |
| Independent | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Nationals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Katter's Australian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| Greens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| LNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| One Nation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
All 132 members, by agreement
| Member | Party | Position | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Chester (Gippsland) | Nationals | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Bob Katter (Kennedy) | Katter's Australian | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Mary Doyle (Aston) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jodie Belyea (Dunkley) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Basem Abdo (Calwell) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Ash Ambihaipahar (Barton) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Carol Berry (Whitlam) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jo Briskey (Maribyrnong) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Julie-Ann Campbell (Moreton) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Claire Clutterham (Sturt) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Renee Coffey (Griffith) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Emma Comer (Petrie) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Kara Cook (Bonner) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Trish Cook (Bullwinkel) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tom French (Moore) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Matt Gregg (Deakin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Rowan Holzberger (Forde) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Madonna Jarrett (Brisbane) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Alice Jordan-Baird (Gorton) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| David Moncrieff (Hughes) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Gabriel Ng (Menzies) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Matt Smith (Leichhardt) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Zhi Soon (Banks) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jess Teesdale (Bass) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Rebecca White (Lyons) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sarah Witty (Melbourne) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Alex Hawke (Mitchell) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Dan Tehan (Wannon) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Michael McCormack (Riverina) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Scott Buchholz (Wright) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Tony Pasin (Barker) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Michelle Landry (Capricornia) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Melissa Price (Durack) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Angus Taylor (Hume) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Joanne Ryan (Lalor) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Rick Wilson (O'Connor) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Kevin Hogan (Page) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Andrew Hastie (Canning) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Ted O'Brien (Fairfax) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Madeleine King (Brand) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Julian Leeser (Berowra) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Pat Conaghan (Cowper) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Phillip Thompson (Herbert) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Terry Young (Longman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Anne Webster (Mallee) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Angie Bell (Moncrieff) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Garth Hamilton (Groom) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Henry Pike (Bowman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Aaron Violi (Casey) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Andrew Willcox (Dawson) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Zoe McKenzie (Flinders) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Colin Boyce (Flynn) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Sam Birrell (Nicholls) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Matt Burnell (Spence) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Andrew Wallace (Fisher) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 92% |
| Ben Small (Forrest) | Liberal | Voted almost always for | 87% |
| Barnaby Joyce (New England) | One Nation | Not enough votes to say | 78% |
| Anne Urquhart (Braddon) | Labor | Voted generally for | 67% |
| Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Justine Elliot (Richmond) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Shayne Neumann (Blair) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Tony Zappia (Makin) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Rob Mitchell (McEwen) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Ed Husic (Chifley) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Lisa Chesters (Bendigo) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Tim Watts (Gellibrand) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Sharon Claydon (Newcastle) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Andrew Giles (Scullin) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Emma McBride (Dobell) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Mike Freelander (Macarthur) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Susan Templeman (Macquarie) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Meryl Swanson (Paterson) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Luke Gosling (Solomon) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Julian Hill (Bruce) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Peter Khalil (Wills) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Anne Stanley (Werriwa) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Andrew Leigh (Fenner) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Patrick Gorman (Perth) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Libby Coker (Corangamite) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Fiona Phillips (Gilmore) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Kate Thwaites (Jagajaga) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Steve Georganas (Adelaide) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Ged Kearney (Cooper) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Jerome Laxale (Bennelong) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Carina Garland (Chisholm) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Alison Byrnes (Cunningham) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Tania Lawrence (Hasluck) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Sam Rae (Hawke) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Cassandra Fernando (Holt) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Dan Repacholi (Hunter) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Marion Scrymgour (Lingiari) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Andrew Charlton (Parramatta) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Tracey Roberts (Pearce) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Sally Sitou (Reid) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Gordon Reid (Robertson) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Zaneta Mascarenhas (Swan) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Sam Lim (Tangney) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| David Smith (Bean) | Labor | Voted generally against | 34% |
| Tony Burke (Watson) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Jason Clare (Blaxland) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Julie Collins (Franklin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Catherine King (Ballarat) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Richard Marles (Corio) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Tanya Plibersek (Sydney) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Amanda Rishworth (Kingston) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Michelle Rowland (Greenway) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Chris Bowen (McMahon) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Clare O'Neil (Hotham) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Jim Chalmers (Rankin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Matt Keogh (Burt) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Anne Aly (Cowan) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Pat Conroy (Shortland) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Josh Wilson (Fremantle) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Alicia Payne (Canberra) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Daniel Mulino (Fraser) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Helen Haines (Indi) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Anika Wells (Lilley) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Josh Burns (Macnamara) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Mark Butler (Hindmarsh) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Kristy McBain (Eden-Monaro) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Kate Chaney (Curtin) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Zali Steggall (Warringah) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Andrew Wilkie (Clark) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Monique Ryan (Kooyong) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Sophie Scamps (Mackellar) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan) | Greens | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Allegra Spender (Wentworth) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Nicolette Boele (Bradfield) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
Votes that make up this policy
The policy position on each vote. Strong votes count more towards a member's agreement score.
- 11 Mar 2026 · HousePolicy: NoNorthern Australia Infrastructure Facility Amendment Bill 2026 - Report from Federation Chamber - Prohibited financial assistance
- 25 June 2024 · SenatePolicy: NoAppropriation Bill (No. 1) 2024-2025 and four others - Second Reading - Coal and gas
- 9 Mar 2023 · HousePolicy: NoNational Reconstruction Fund Corporation Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Prohibited investments
- 24 Nov 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoMatters of Urgency - Climate Change - Statement on Glasgow Climate Pact
- 18 Oct 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoExport Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Equity Investments and Other Measures) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Fossil fuels
- 23 June 2021 · SenatePolicy: AyeDocuments - Queensland: Coal Mining - Acland mine extension
- 16 June 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Climate Change - G7 resolutions
- 13 May 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Climate Change - Stop funding fossil fuels
- 18 Mar 2021 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance
- 16 Feb 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Industry Research and Development (Bankable Feasibility Study on High-Efficiency Low-Emissions Coal Plant in Collinsville Program) Instrument 2020 - Disallow
- 2 Feb 2021 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Coal-Fired Power Stations - Build in the Hunter
- 10 Nov 2020 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Coal Industry - Greens leader and South Korea
- 11 Feb 2020 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Energy - Coal-fired power project
- 2 Dec 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Mining - Withdraw support for Adani
- 11 Nov 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Wallarah 2 Coal Project - Cancel approval
- 17 Oct 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Thermal Coal - Ban new mines
- 15 Oct 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Tasmania: Mining - Prohibition
- 11 Sept 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Climate Change - Thermal coal
- 9 Sept 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Energy - Clean energy industry
- 31 July 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Banking and Financial Services - Transition to low carbon economy
- 24 July 2019 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Great Barrier Reef - Protect from climate change
- 4 Dec 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Mining - Support Adani
- 4 Dec 2018 · SenatePolicy: NoMatters of Urgency - Climate Change - Coal exports
- 27 Nov 2018 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Mining - Water environmental assessment
- 26 Nov 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Coal-Fired Power Stations - Good for economy and regional jobs
- 27 June 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Energy - More coal-fired power stations
- 19 Mar 2018 · SenatePolicy: NoTreasury Laws Amendment (Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive) Bill 2017 - in Committee - No exploration incentive for thermal coal
- 13 Sept 2017 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Energy - Transition for coal workforce required
- 11 Sept 2017 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Energy - Liddell power station
- 16 Aug 2017 · SenatePolicy: NoGreat Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Stop Adani mine
- 22 Mar 2017 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Energy - Transition plan for coal workers
- 1 Dec 2016 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Coal Industry - For technology neutral policies
- 17 Mar 2016 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Climate Change - Support a rapid transition to clean energy
- 10 Nov 2015 · SenatePolicy: NoBusiness - Coalmining - Oppose Shenhua Watermark coal mine
- 9 Sept 2015 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Newcastle City Council Investment Policies - Environmental investment
- 25 Mar 2015 · SenatePolicy: NoBusiness - Great Barrier Reef - Galilee Basin
- 3 Mar 2015 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions — Liverpool Plains
- 24 Nov 2014 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Mining - Galilee Basin
- 28 Oct 2014 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Mining - Acknowledge massive economic benefits
- 15 Mar 2012 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Coal - From coal to clean energy market
- 10 Sept 2009 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Coal Exploration and Mining in the Galilee Basin - Concerns
- 8 Feb 2007 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Climate Change - Reduce coal exports