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Parliament’s Portfolio

WA

Wendy Askew

LIBSenator for TASparliaments 45–48
  • 45th–48th · Senator for TAS · Liberal

This page covers the 44th Parliament in full. The Registers of Senators’ Interests are tabled as combined Senate volumes, and we have not read them into this site yet. An empty register here is our coverage gap — not a record that this senator declared nothing.

43
entries currently declared
2
ASX-listed companies named
5
real-estate declarations
4
liabilities entries
17
gifts and sponsored travel
17 Aug 2025
register last updated

Counts of register entries currently declared. The registers record what is held and not quantity or value, so none of these is an amount. One real-estate entry can cover more than one property, so that figure is a floor rather than a count of properties.

What is declared, at a glance

Declared categories
43current entries
  • Gift9
  • Office held9
  • Sponsored travel8
  • Real estate5
  • Liability4
  • Other (4)8
Declared categories
CategoryCount
Gift9
Office held9
Sponsored travel8
Real estate5
Liability4
Other income3
Shareholdings2
Other assets2
Accounts1
Total43
Who each entry is declared for
43current entries
  • Holder not stated43
Who each entry is declared for
CategoryCount
Holder not stated43
Total43

Entries declared over time

Monthly count of currently-declared entries whose start date the register records. Entries with no stated date are never given one.

02243202120222023202420252026
Monthly declaration counts
MonthCount
2021-0922
2021-1022
2021-1122
2021-1222
2022-0122
2022-0222
2022-0322
2022-0422
2022-0522
2022-0622
2022-0722
2022-0830
2022-0930
2022-1030
2022-1130
2022-1230
2023-0130
2023-0230
2023-0330
2023-0430
2023-0530
2023-0630
2023-0731
2023-0831
2023-0931
2023-1031
2023-1131
2023-1231
2024-0133
2024-0233
2024-0334
2024-0434
2024-0534
2024-0634
2024-0734
2024-0834
2024-0934
2024-1035
2024-1135
2024-1237
2025-0138
2025-0238
2025-0338
2025-0439
2025-0539
2025-0639
2025-0739
2025-0843
2025-0943
2025-1043
2025-1143
2025-1243
2026-0143
2026-0243
2026-0343
2026-0443
2026-0543
2026-0643
2026-0743
2026-0843
Declared companies by industry
Distinct ASX-listed companies declared by this member, grouped by industry. A count of companies, not an amount.
IndustryDistinct companies
Banks
2

Declared interests

Every published entry we hold for this member, in the register’s own categories and its own words. The registers record location at suburb or area level only. Each entry links to the original document it was read from.

Showing 43 of 43 entries.

Shareholdings (2)

Real estate (5)

  • Griffith (ACT) ACT
    Holder not stated
    Real estateResidentialPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Residential Property (Joint with Spouse) - Prospect Vale
    Holder not stated
    Real estatePDF ↗
    Declared since 26 May 2021
  • Residential Property (Joint with Spouse) - Griffith
    Holder not stated
    Real estatePDF ↗
    Declared since 21 July 2020
  • Launceston TAS
    Holder not stated
    Real estateInvestmentPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019
  • Prospect Vale TAS
    Holder not stated
    Real estateResidentialPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019

Liability (4)

  • Mortgage - residential property (joint with spouse) Mortgage - investment property (joint with spouse)
    Holder not stated
    LiabilityPDF ↗
    Westpac WestpacDeclared since 17 Aug 2025
  • Mortgage - Resdiential Property (Joint with Spouse) - Westpac
    Holder not stated
    LiabilityPDF ↗
    Declared since 21 July 2020
  • Mortgage - investment property
    Holder not stated
    LiabilityPDF ↗
    WestpacDeclared since 12 July 2019
  • Mortgage - residential property
    Holder not stated
    LiabilityPDF ↗
    WestpacDeclared since 12 July 2019

Accounts (1)

  • Savings Accounts
    Holder not stated
    AccountsPDF ↗
    WestpacDeclared since 12 July 2019

Other assets (2)

  • Superannuation
    Holder not stated
    Other assetsPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Superannuation - BT Super for Life; Tasplan; PSS
    Holder not stated
    Other assetsPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019

Other income (3)

  • Share dividends - CBA and Westpac Rental from investment property
    Holder not stated
    Other incomePDF ↗
    Declared since 17 Aug 2025
  • Rental from investment property (owned with spouse)
    Holder not stated
    Other incomePDF ↗
    Declared since 28 Mar 2024
  • Share dividends - CBA and Westpac
    Holder not stated
    Other incomePDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019

Gift (9)

  • Huon - Salmon hamper
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 16 Apr 2025
  • Australian Distillers Association - Lark Distillery 2022 Australian Blended Malt Whisky 100ml
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 17 Jan 2025
  • Callington Mill - Madeira Cask Nouveau Beginnings Whisky (Value $159)
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 24 Dec 2024
  • Huon - Salmon Hamper (Value approx $120)
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 24 Dec 2024
  • Australia Post soft toy - value $20
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 30 Oct 2024
  • Gobi Cashmere scarf from Mongolian Ambassador (value approximately AUD210)
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 29 Jan 2024
  • Callington Mill Distillery - whisky value approximately $315.
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 19 Jan 2024
  • Callington Mill Tasmanian Single Malt Whisky (value $150) gifted by Callington Mill, Oatlands, Tasmania.
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 30 July 2023
  • Foxtel connected to Electorate Office
    Holder not stated
    GiftPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022

Sponsored travel (8)

  • Qantas - Chairman's Lounge membership Virgin - Beyond Lounge membership
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 17 Aug 2025
  • Virgin - Beyond Lounge membership
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Upgraded from Economy to Business Class flight by Virgin Australia on 06/03/2020 from Canberra to Melbourne, using a complimentary upgrade associated with Club Membership.
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 9 Mar 2020
  • Upgraded from Economy to Business Class flight by Virgin Australia on 28/2/2020 from Canberra to Melbourne, using a complimentary upgrade associated with Club Membership. Also provided with a complimentary upgrade from Economy to Business Class flight by Virgin Australia on 1/3/2020 from Launceston to Sydney.
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 2 Mar 2020
  • Departure from Canberra on 17 Jan 2020 and return to Canberra on 23 Jan 2020. Sponsored travel**, accommodation and meals for self and husband for a visit to Bangladesh as participants in The Australian Regional Leadership Initiative - MP Learning Tour to Bangladesh, delivered by Save the Children Australia, and made possible by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. **NB : Cost of husband's international and domestic flight expenses funded by Senator Askew. Husband's on ground transport within Bangladesh met by Save the Children Australia.
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Feb 2020
  • Qantas - Chairman's Lounge membership
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019
  • Upgrade from Economy to Business on VA284 / VA1380 from Canberra to Launceston on 5 July 2019
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019
  • Virgin - VIP Club membership
    Holder not stated
    Sponsored travelPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 July 2019

Office held (9)

  • Donor - St Giles Society Donor - Launceston City Mission Donor - MS Australia Donor - The Listening Project, Launceston Donor - Liberal Party of Australia - Tasmanian Division
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 17 Aug 2025
  • Donor - Launceston City Mission
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Donor - Liberal Party of Australia Tasmanian Division
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Donor - MS Australia
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Donor - St Giles Society
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 14 Aug 2022
  • Donor - Diabetes Tasmania
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 8 Dec 2020
  • Donor - Cancer Council Tasmania
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 12 Nov 2020
  • Donor - St Giles Society Donor - Examiner Winter Relief Appeal
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 21 July 2020
  • Donor - Launceston City Mission Donor - MS Australia Donor - St Vincent de Paul Donor - Cha Cha for Charity (supporting Examiner Winter Relief Appeal and SPEAK Up Stay CHATty) Donor - Launceston Benevolent Society Donor - Clifford Craig Medical Research Foundation Donor - Liberal Party of Australia Tasmanian Division
    Holder not stated
    Office heldPDF ↗
    Declared since 25 May 2020

Register of Members’ Interests / Register of Senators’ Interests, Parliament of Australia — as at 17 August 2025. Report an error

Method & caveats

Australian federal parliamentarians must declare certain interests in the Register of Members’ Interests (House of Representatives) and the Register of Senators’ Interests. For holdings — shares, real estate, trusts, liabilities, assets — the registers record what is held and do not record quantity, value, purchase price or income. Nothing on this page states or implies the size of any holding, any gain or loss, or any trading activity.

Two items are different, because the form itself asks for a value: gifts and sponsored travel. Where a member stated an amount there, it appears as they wrote it. That figure is the declared value of a gift or a trip — never the size of a holding, and never a total.

Dates are the dates a declaration appeared in, or was removed from, the register — not transaction dates. A removal can mean an asset was disposed of, a declaration was corrected, or the member left parliament.

Company names are free text as written by the member. We link a declaration to an ASX listing only on an exact normalised match, a ticker the member stated, or a human-verified alias, so many declarations appear as text only. Real-estate declarations are suburb- or area-level; the registers contain no street addresses, and some declared locations do not map to a single ABS suburb.

Rows are declared as held by the member (“Self”), their spouse or partner, or a dependent child, exactly as the register records them. Members’ seats, parties and chambers change between parliaments.

Extracted from primary PDFs published by the Parliament of Australia; parliamentary material, © Commonwealth of Australia. Corrections are annotated, not silently applied. Not financial advice.