Senate
Ellie Whiteaker
Ellie Whiteaker is an Australian Labor Party senator for Western Australia. First elected 1 July 2025.
- 2025 Entered Labor Senate
- Australian Labor Party
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.
254 tracked votes while with Labor.
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. 1 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. 0 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?
Most recently, on 1 July 2026, Whiteaker voted No on three amendments in the nurse-prescribing bill, including extending subsidised prescriptions to podiatrists. Her supporting speech is dated 1 April 2026 and supports the bill; the pack does not say it accompanied the July votes. On 29 June, she voted Aye for the cooperative workplaces bill.
On 25 June, she voted No on a call to index income-tax brackets in the tax reform bill. The same day, a speech on the online safety bill was marked unclear about whether she supported its passage.
When do they vote against their party?
Ellie recorded no votes against the Labor position across 254 recorded votes.
What do they say in debate?
19 tracked speeches across 18 bills.
- 14 backing a bill
- 0 with reservations
- 2 against
- 3 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.