Documents — Asylum Seekers; Order for the Production of Documents
Linda Reynolds voted Yes, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Wendy Askew voted No
Not passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 53% attendance
Linda Reynolds and Wendy Askew have voted the same way 99.6% of the time
Linda Reynolds
Liberal Party Senator for WA since July 2014
Wendy Askew
Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania since March 2019
Since March 2019 Linda Reynolds and Wendy Askew have voted in the same division 918 times.
In divisions they have voted the same 914 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
How do their votes on policies compare?
Policies are groups of votes related to an issue. We only show policies where we have enough information on both people.
Always voted differently on
Voted a mixture of the same and differently on
Always voted the same way on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- A declared area offence
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- A Royal Commission into Robodebt
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin
- An Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
- Assisting Australians trying to return from overseas
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Capping gas prices
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing ABC and SBS funding
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Decreasing government funding for private schools
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Ending indexation on student debt (vocational and tertiary)
- 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 access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing funding for university education
- Increasing government support for the dairy industry
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- 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 scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Increasing the cost of humanities degrees
- 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
- Live animal export
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Net zero emissions by 2035
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- No new fossil fuels projects
- Nuclear energy
- Offshore oil mining
- Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)
- Privatising certain government services
- Procedural fairness
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Putting a time limit on immigration detention
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Restricting donations to political parties
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
- Unconventional gas mining
Divisions in which they voted differently
In divisions they have voted the same 914 times. They have only voted differently 4 times.
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Approval and importation of drugs
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
Wendy Askew voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 86% attendance
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edited 2nd Dec 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - in Committee - Limitation of power
Linda Reynolds voted No in this free vote
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
Linda Reynolds voted Yes in this free vote
Wendy Askew voted No in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance