Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
People who support this policy believe that the federal government should increase its funding for initiatives that support rural and regional communities.
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
69 members
Independent
9 members
Liberal
8 members+7 not enough votes
Nationals
4 members+4 not enough votes
LNP
2 members+6 not enough votes
Centre Alliance
1 member
Greens
1 member
Katter's Australian
1 member
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 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| Liberal | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 |
| Nationals | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| LNP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| Centre Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Greens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Katter's Australian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| One Nation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
All 113 members, by agreement
| Member | Party | Position | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zali Steggall (Warringah) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Andrew Wilkie (Clark) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Sophie Scamps (Mackellar) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 100% |
| Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo) | Centre Alliance | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Helen Haines (Indi) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Kate Chaney (Curtin) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Dai Le (Fowler) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Monique Ryan (Kooyong) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Allegra Spender (Wentworth) | Independent | Voted consistently for | 98% |
| Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan) | Greens | Voted almost always for | 94% |
| Jason Clare (Blaxland) | Labor | Voted almost always for | 86% |
| Bob Katter (Kennedy) | Katter's Australian | Voted almost always for | 86% |
| Andrew Gee (Calare) | Independent | Voted generally for | 73% |
| Anthony Albanese (Grayndler) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Tanya Plibersek (Sydney) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Chris Bowen (McMahon) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Clare O'Neil (Hotham) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Jim Chalmers (Rankin) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Pat Conroy (Shortland) | Labor | Voted generally for | 64% |
| Tony Burke (Watson) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Catherine King (Ballarat) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Amanda Rishworth (Kingston) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Ed Husic (Chifley) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Andrew Giles (Scullin) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Matt Keogh (Burt) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Madeleine King (Brand) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Josh Wilson (Fremantle) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Mark Butler (Hindmarsh) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Julian Hill (Bruce) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 40% |
| Julie Collins (Franklin) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Richard Marles (Corio) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Michelle Rowland (Greenway) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Luke Gosling (Solomon) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Peter Khalil (Wills) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Fiona Phillips (Gilmore) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Anika Wells (Lilley) | Labor | Voted generally against | 36% |
| Carina Garland (Chisholm) | Labor | Voted generally against | 35% |
| Alison Byrnes (Cunningham) | Labor | Voted generally against | 35% |
| Andrew Charlton (Parramatta) | Labor | Voted generally against | 35% |
| Sally Sitou (Reid) | Labor | Voted generally against | 35% |
| Joanne Ryan (Lalor) | Labor | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Emma McBride (Dobell) | Labor | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Susan Templeman (Macquarie) | Labor | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Anne Stanley (Werriwa) | Labor | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Daniel Mulino (Fraser) | Labor | Voted generally against | 33% |
| Tony Zappia (Makin) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Rob Mitchell (McEwen) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Lisa Chesters (Bendigo) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Tim Watts (Gellibrand) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Anne Aly (Cowan) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Meryl Swanson (Paterson) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Andrew Leigh (Fenner) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Patrick Gorman (Perth) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Alicia Payne (Canberra) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Libby Coker (Corangamite) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Kate Thwaites (Jagajaga) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Ged Kearney (Cooper) | Labor | Voted generally against | 27% |
| Sam Rae (Hawke) | Labor | Voted generally against | 26% |
| Dan Repacholi (Hunter) | Labor | Voted generally against | 26% |
| Marion Scrymgour (Lingiari) | Labor | Voted generally against | 26% |
| Tracey Roberts (Pearce) | Labor | Voted generally against | 26% |
| Sam Lim (Tangney) | Labor | Voted generally against | 26% |
| Scott Buchholz (Wright) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Tony Pasin (Barker) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Jason Wood (La Trobe) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Andrew Hastie (Canning) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Pat Conaghan (Cowper) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Phillip Thompson (Herbert) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Terry Young (Longman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Anne Webster (Mallee) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Barnaby Joyce (New England) | One Nation | Not enough votes to say | 25% |
| Garth Hamilton (Groom) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Henry Pike (Bowman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Aaron Violi (Casey) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Andrew Willcox (Dawson) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Zoe McKenzie (Flinders) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Colin Boyce (Flynn) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Sam Birrell (Nicholls) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 22% |
| Justine Elliot (Richmond) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Shayne Neumann (Blair) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Sharon Claydon (Newcastle) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Mike Freelander (Macarthur) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Josh Burns (Macnamara) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Steve Georganas (Adelaide) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| David Smith (Bean) | Labor | Voted generally against | 21% |
| Kristy McBain (Eden-Monaro) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Jerome Laxale (Bennelong) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Tania Lawrence (Hasluck) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Cassandra Fernando (Holt) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Gordon Reid (Robertson) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Matt Burnell (Spence) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Zaneta Mascarenhas (Swan) | Labor | Voted generally against | 20% |
| Alex Hawke (Mitchell) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Darren Chester (Gippsland) | Nationals | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Dan Tehan (Wannon) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Michael McCormack (Riverina) | Nationals | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Angus Taylor (Hume) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Kevin Hogan (Page) | Nationals | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Julian Leeser (Berowra) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| David Littleproud (Maranoa) | Nationals | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Angie Bell (Moncrieff) | LNP | Voted almost always against | 14% |
| Melissa Price (Durack) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 8% |
| Rick Wilson (O'Connor) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 8% |
| Ted O'Brien (Fairfax) | Liberal | Voted almost always against | 8% |
| Andrew Wallace (Fisher) | LNP | Voted almost always against | 8% |
| Mary Doyle (Aston) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Jodie Belyea (Dunkley) | Labor | Voted consistently against | 0% |
| Tim Wilson (Goldstein) | Liberal | 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.
- 1 Apr 2026 · SenatePolicy: Aye (strong)Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 1) Bill 2026 - Limitation of Debate - Remote area allowance
- 20 Nov 2024 · HousePolicy: AyeNational Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Universal service obligation
- 4 June 2024 · HousePolicy: AyeNet Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Community engagements and plans; developer rating scheme
- 16 Feb 2023 · HousePolicy: NoNational Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Regional Australia and critical infrastructure
- 15 Feb 2023 · HousePolicy: NoHousing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 - Consideration in Detail - Proportion of grants to regional, rural and remote Australia
- 4 Aug 2022 · HousePolicy: AyeClimate Change Bill 2022, Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 - Consideration in Detail - Regional Australia
- 10 June 2020 · HousePolicy: NoNational Skills Commissioner Bill 2020 - Consideration in Detail - Regional Australia