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Voluntary assisted dying recorded votes
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019Lets an adult who is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, has lived in Western Australia for at least 12 months, has decision-making capacity and is acting voluntarily, with an advanced, progressive condition expected to cause death within six months (12 months for a neurodegenerative condition) and suffering that cannot be relieved in a way they find tolerable, request voluntary assisted dying. It takes three requests, two verbal and a written declaration witnessed by two independent people; health practitioners may conscientiously object, and a Voluntary Assisted Dying Board oversees compliance.3 Sep 2019 ↗24 Sep 2019 ↗
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Bill 2025Replaces Western Australia's three assisted reproduction and surrogacy Acts with one. Access to IVF and surrogacy no longer requires medical infertility, so single people and same-sex couples can use them; reciprocal IVF and fertility preservation are allowed. Surrogacy no longer needs the Reproductive Technology Council's approval, but the parties must get independent legal advice and counselling first; commercial surrogacy and trade in eggs, sperm and embryos stay banned. All donor-conceived people get a right to information about their donor, the council is replaced by an advisory and review board, clinics are licensed by the Department of Health's chief executive, and a surviving partner can use a deceased person's reproductive material where the person consented, or with the board's approval where there was no consent either way.18 Sep 2025 ↗
Drugs & law and order official record
Whitby is Minister for Police; Road Safety; Tourism; Great Southern in the Cook Labor Government, overseeing the Western Australia Police Force. His portfolio includes enforcement of WA's knife and edged-weapon laws, which took effect on 20 December 2024 under the Police Legislation Amendment Act 2024. Those laws define 'edged weapons' to include knives, machetes, sickles, scythes and axes, make carrying an edged weapon without lawful excuse an offence (max 3 years jail and $36,000 fine), bar sale/supply to under-18s, and empower metal-detector ('wanding') searches, with 'personal defence' explicitly excluded as a lawful excuse.
Native forest logging official record
As WA Minister for Environment and Climate Action, Whitby (ALP) supported the WA Labor government's decision to end commercial native forest logging (effective 1 Jan 2024), stating: 'This decision is a historic moment for WA. Our State is now one of the first in Australia to end native logging.'
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Conservation and Land Management Amendment Bill 2025Writes the end of commercial logging in Western Australia's native forests into law. Timber production on a sustained yield basis is removed as a purpose for which state forest and timber reserves can be set aside, and regulations can no longer make it one; removing salvage forest products in the circumstances the regulations set out can continue. Also lets the Conservation and Parks Commission meet remotely and makes the Act's schedule gender-neutral.18 Jun 2025 ↗18 Jun 2025 ↗
Health recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Bill 2025Replaces Western Australia's three assisted reproduction and surrogacy Acts with one. Access to IVF and surrogacy no longer requires medical infertility, so single people and same-sex couples can use them; reciprocal IVF and fertility preservation are allowed. Surrogacy no longer needs the Reproductive Technology Council's approval, but the parties must get independent legal advice and counselling first; commercial surrogacy and trade in eggs, sperm and embryos stay banned. All donor-conceived people get a right to information about their donor, the council is replaced by an advisory and review board, clinics are licensed by the Department of Health's chief executive, and a surviving partner can use a deceased person's reproductive material where the person consented, or with the board's approval where there was no consent either way.18 Sep 2025 ↗
Environment & water official record
As WA Minister for Environment and Climate Action (Labor, Cook Government), Reece Whitby introduced the Climate Change Bill 2023 setting a long-term target of net zero emissions by 2050 and requiring the minister to report annually to Parliament on progress. He later led the Cook Government's Environmental Protection Amendment Bill 2024 overhauling WA's environmental approvals, which he defended as balanced: 'These reforms will ensure WA's high environmental protection standards are upheld while supporting efficient processes for business.' The reforms were criticised by conservation groups after the government indicated it would no longer impose greenhouse-gas emissions conditions on major fossil fuel projects.
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Record last updated 2026-10-29.