Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
People who support this policy believe that the federal government should increase legal protections for people who identify as LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) by, for example, getting rid of all current exemptions that permit discrimination against LGBTI people by religious insitutions (such as schools).
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
65 members+1 not enough votes
Liberal
11 members+5 not enough votes
Independent
8 members+1 not enough votes
Nationals
8 members+1 not enough votes
LNP
5 members+3 not enough votes
Greens
1 member
Centre Alliance
1 member
Speaker
1 member
Katter's Australian
1 member
One Nation
1 member
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 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 31 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 65 |
| Liberal | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Nationals | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| LNP | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Greens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Centre Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Speaker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Katter's Australian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| One Nation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
All 113 members, by agreement
| Member | Party | Position | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Haines (Indi) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Zali Steggall (Warringah) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Andrew Wilkie (Clark) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Monique Ryan (Kooyong) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Sophie Scamps (Mackellar) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan) | Greens | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Allegra Spender (Wentworth) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Kate Chaney (Curtin) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 95% |
| Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo) | Centre Alliance | Voted almost always for | 92% |
| Peter Khalil (Wills) | Labor | Voted generally for | 73% |
| Luke Gosling (Solomon) | Labor | Voted generally for | 69% |
| Kate Thwaites (Jagajaga) | Labor | Voted generally for | 69% |
| Jason Clare (Blaxland) | Labor | Voted generally for | 66% |
| Clare O'Neil (Hotham) | Labor | Voted generally for | 66% |
| Anika Wells (Lilley) | Labor | Voted generally for | 66% |
| Catherine King (Ballarat) | Labor | Voted generally for | 63% |
| Madeleine King (Brand) | Labor | Voted generally for | 63% |
| Anne Urquhart (Braddon) | Labor | Voted generally for | 63% |
| Julie Collins (Franklin) | Labor | Voted generally for | 61% |
| Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith) | Labor | Voted generally for | 61% |
| Ged Kearney (Cooper) | Labor | Voted generally for | 60% |
| Jim Chalmers (Rankin) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 57% |
| Ed Husic (Chifley) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 55% |
| Shayne Neumann (Blair) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Rob Mitchell (McEwen) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Michelle Rowland (Greenway) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Joanne Ryan (Lalor) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Emma McBride (Dobell) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Susan Templeman (Macquarie) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Meryl Swanson (Paterson) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Libby Coker (Corangamite) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Fiona Phillips (Gilmore) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Josh Burns (Macnamara) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Kristy McBain (Eden-Monaro) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 52% |
| Patrick Gorman (Perth) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Dan Tehan (Wannon) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Melissa Price (Durack) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Andrew Hastie (Canning) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Terry Young (Longman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Anne Webster (Mallee) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Andrew Gee (Calare) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 47% |
| Tanya Plibersek (Sydney) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Matt Keogh (Burt) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Anne Aly (Cowan) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Pat Conroy (Shortland) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Alicia Payne (Canberra) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Mark Butler (Hindmarsh) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Milton Dick (Oxley) | Speaker | Voted a mixture of for and against | 45% |
| Anthony Albanese (Grayndler) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 43% |
| Chris Bowen (McMahon) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 43% |
| Andrew Leigh (Fenner) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 43% |
| Lisa Chesters (Bendigo) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 42% |
| Julian Leeser (Berowra) | Liberal | Voted a mixture of for and against | 42% |
| Daniel Mulino (Fraser) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 42% |
| David Smith (Bean) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 42% |
| Justine Elliot (Richmond) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 41% |
| Amanda Rishworth (Kingston) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 41% |
| Tony Zappia (Makin) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 41% |
| Mike Freelander (Macarthur) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 41% |
| Julian Hill (Bruce) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 41% |
| Tony Burke (Watson) | Labor | Voted generally against | 39% |
| Richard Marles (Corio) | Labor | Voted generally against | 39% |
| Sharon Claydon (Newcastle) | Labor | Voted generally against | 39% |
| Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs) | Labor | Voted generally against | 38% |
| Tim Watts (Gellibrand) | Labor | Voted generally against | 38% |
| Andrew Giles (Scullin) | Labor | Voted generally against | 38% |
| Anne Stanley (Werriwa) | Labor | Voted generally against | 38% |
| Steve Georganas (Adelaide) | Labor | Voted generally against | 38% |
| Andrew Wallace (Fisher) | LNP | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Henry Pike (Bowman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 14% |
| Zoe McKenzie (Flinders) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 14% |
| Colin Boyce (Flynn) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 14% |
| Tania Lawrence (Hasluck) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 14% |
| Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay) | Nationals | Voted almost always against | 13% |
| Ben Small (Forrest) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 8% |
| Aaron Violi (Casey) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Andrew Willcox (Dawson) | LNP | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Sam Rae (Hawke) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Sam Birrell (Nicholls) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Sally Sitou (Reid) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Gordon Reid (Robertson) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 5% |
| Michelle Landry (Capricornia) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Jason Wood (La Trobe) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Alex Hawke (Mitchell) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Darren Chester (Gippsland) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Scott Buchholz (Wright) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Kevin Hogan (Page) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| David Littleproud (Maranoa) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Bob Katter (Kennedy) | Katter's Australian | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Phillip Thompson (Herbert) | LNP | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Garth Hamilton (Groom) | LNP | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Barnaby Joyce (New England) | One Nation | Voted consistently against | 1% |
| Tony Pasin (Barker) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Angus Taylor (Hume) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Rick Wilson (O'Connor) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Ted O'Brien (Fairfax) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Pat Conaghan (Cowper) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Angie Bell (Moncrieff) | LNP | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Michael McCormack (Riverina) | Nationals | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Jerome Laxale (Bennelong) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Carina Garland (Chisholm) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Alison Byrnes (Cunningham) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Dai Le (Fowler) | Independent | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Cassandra Fernando (Holt) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Dan Repacholi (Hunter) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Marion Scrymgour (Lingiari) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Tracey Roberts (Pearce) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Matt Burnell (Spence) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Zaneta Mascarenhas (Swan) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Sam Lim (Tangney) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Tim Wilson (Goldstein) | Liberal | Voted consistently against | 0% |
Votes that make up this policy
The policy position on each vote. Strong votes count more towards a member's agreement score.
- 30 June 2026 · SenatePolicy: Aye (strong)Anti-Discrimination Legislation Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics Discrimination Commissioner) Bill 2026 - First Reading - Let it be introduced
- 20 Jan 2026 · SenatePolicy: Aye (strong)Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026 - Limitation of Debate - Expand protections to other groups (religion, LGBTQIA+ and disability)
- 9 Mar 2023 · SenatePolicy: AyeTherapeutic Goods Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Giving blood
- 7 Nov 2022 · HousePolicy: NoAnti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Extending protection
- 7 Nov 2022 · HousePolicy: NoAnti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Objects of bill
- 27 Oct 2022 · SenatePolicy: AyeAustralian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
- 2 Aug 2022 · HousePolicy: NoAustralian Human Rights Commission Legislation Amendment (Selection and Appointment) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Human Rights Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ people
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: No (strong)Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: NoReligious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: No (strong)Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Statements of belief
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: NoReligious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Aged Care
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: No (strong)Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: NoHuman Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Teachers
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: NoHuman Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: AyeHuman Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Students
- 9 Feb 2022 · HousePolicy: AyeHuman Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - Consideration in Detail - Agree with amended bill
- 22 June 2021 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Discrimination - LGBTIQ+ people
- 4 Feb 2021 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Gender and Sexual Orientation - National inquiry into conversion practices
- 14 Nov 2019 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Intersex Day of Solidarity - Darlington Statement
- 3 Dec 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Gender and Sexual Orientation - Healthcare and gender diverse treatment
- 16 Oct 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Religious Freedom Review - Discrimination against LGBTI students and staff
- 16 Oct 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Anti-Discrimination Laws - Protect students and staff at independent schools