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24th Oct 2019
Motions - Abortion - Congratulate NSW
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 68% attendance
Wendy Askew
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since March 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 86% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted very strongly for
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A Free Trade Agreement with China
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- Australia's timber industry
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- 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
- Privatising government services
- Reducing personal income tax
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Voted strongly for
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Offshore oil mining
- Putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards (known as cashless debit cards)
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted a mixture of for and against
What does this mean?Voted strongly against
- A fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Increasing funding for public schools
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The Paris Climate Agreement
Voted very strongly against
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- Building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia
- Building community climate change resilience
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Extending Jobkeeper Payment
- Federal action on public housing
- For increasing the Youth Allowance rate
- Increasing access to medicinal cannabis products
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing funding for road infrastructure
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing funding for vocational education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing political transparency
- 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 foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Increasing the Newstart Allowance rate
- Increasing transparency of the China-Australia relationship
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Paid parental leave equality for stay-at-home mums and dads
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Stopping former ministers from taking lobbying positions within five years
- Targeting foreign interference in Australia
- The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency
- Universal access to abortion services
Has never voted on
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Ending Governor-General allowances for serious misconduct
- Ending immigration detention on Manus Island
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing eligibility requirements for Australian citizenship
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
Please note that our voting records start in 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 1 free vote since entering Parliament in March 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Committees — Economics Legislation Committee; Report
Wendy Askew was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Tasmania: Takayna Trail Ultramarathon
Wendy Askew was absent
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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Motions — Nbn Co
Wendy Askew was absent
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
Possible Friends
Shows which Senators voted most similarly to this one in the 2013 (current) Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both Senators attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between Senators that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | State | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Dean Smith | WA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Paul Scarr | Queensland | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Perin Davey | NSW | National Party |
| 98% | Alex Antic | SA | Liberal Party |
| 98% | Matt O'Sullivan | WA | Liberal Party |