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2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
Wendy Askew
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since March 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 76% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A character test for Australian visas
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Extended Supervision Orders (ESOs)
- Increasing surveillance powers
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Placing the CFMEU into administration
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing taxes for high-income earners
- Reducing taxes for middle-income earners
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing political transparency
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Treating COVID vaccine status as a protected attribute
Voted almost always against
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Repealing Stage 3 tax cuts
- Transgender rights
Voted consistently against
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Building community climate change resilience
- Capping gas prices
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing restrictions on gambling
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Increasing workplace protections
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Self-governance of the territories
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Transgender children and young people having access to gender affirming healthcare
- Vehicle efficiency standards
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A carbon price
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- An independent NDIS assessment process
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Climate change mitigation strategies (e.g., carbon capture and storage)
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending illegal logging
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing funding for legal aid
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protections for franchisees
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the diversity of media ownership
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- Introducing a Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV)
- More scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on a temporary basis as a trial
- Reducing air pollution
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Reproductive bodily autonomy
- Requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the courts
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- Temporary protection visas
- The Murray Darling Basin Plan
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Wendy Askew has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Wendy Askew has taken part in 11 free votes since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain “Free Votes”
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 25th Nov 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Inclusion in annual reports
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Annual report
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Introduce threshold
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Sections 28F and 28G
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Stage 2 licences
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of mitochondrial donation licence
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 83% attendance
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edited 11th Feb 2022
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 - in Committee - Definition of gene technology
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 80% attendance
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edited 24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024; in Committee
Wendy Askew voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Bills — Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024; in Committee
Wendy Askew voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 47% attendance
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Bills — Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024; Second Reading
Wendy Askew was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 59% attendance
Compare Wendy Askew with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Wendy Askew (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
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| 100% | Michaelia Cash | Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Jonathon Duniam | Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania |
| 100% | Kerrynne Liddle | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | James Paterson | Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Anne Ruston | Liberal Party Senator for SA |