Senate
Wendy Askew
Wendy Askew is a Liberal Party of Australia senator for Tasmania. First elected 6 March 2019.
- 2019 Appointed to Senate
- 2022 Elected to Senate
- 2022 Became Opposition Whip
- Liberal Party of Australia
What do they focus on?
Not enough tracked speeches or amendments to say yet.
Bars show tracked speeches and amendments by policy area.
How do they vote?
Share of recorded votes on the same side as each party's majority.
783 tracked votes while with Liberal.
How do they compare?
- Years in parliament i Total time served across every stint in either chamber, up to the end of the tracked record. 7.3 yrs 0.2 avg 8.5 yrs 33.3
- Votes against their party i Recorded votes cast against their own party's majority side. The average is across party members only. 0 avg 0.6 26
- Bills introduced i Bills they introduced to Parliament, counted across the tracked record. 0 avg 2.8 46
- Amendments sponsored i Amendments to bills they put forward during debate, counted across the tracked record. 2 avg 7.9 226
The marker starts at their party’s position and shifts only for floor-crossings towards a neighbouring party. No topic strip is shown because their economic, social and environment votes followed the party line.
What have they done lately?
Recent activity centred on tax, workplace relations and medicine access. On 24 June 2026, she said the coalition opposed the Treasury tax-reform bill because of its capital-gains-tax and negative-gearing changes; on 25 June she voted No on a related tax question described as keeping those changes, which carried 34–25.
On 29 June, she voted No on passage of the workplace-relations bill, which carried 31–25. On 1 July, she voted Aye on listed amendments in the nurse-prescribing bill extending subsidised prescriptions to podiatrists; the recorded questions carried 32–19 and 31–21. These votes address the specified questions, not necessarily whole bills.
When do they vote against their party?
Wendy recorded no votes against the Liberal position across 783 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
25 tracked speeches across 24 bills.
- 15 backing a bill
- 3 with reservations
- 7 against
- 0 no clear position
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About these numbers
Based on 766 tracked bills from the 47th and 48th Parliaments, current to 6 July 2026. This is a sample of parliamentary activity, not the complete record.
Career markers come from dated public records. Voting figures use division lists only. For party members, the left-to-right marker begins at the party position. It moves only when the member votes against that party and on the same side as a neighbouring party; other cross-party combinations do not affect it. Independents and minor-party members are placed by their votes in divisions where the Greens and the Coalition took opposite sides. If this position differs from a member’s broader public politics, a note appears below the strip.