Senate appointment onboarding: Donna Dasko (2018)

What the record says

Classified as appointment onboarding, not a floor crossing: this is the earliest Senate affiliation change this database records for this senator, a first move out of non-affiliated status following appointment rather than a change of allegiance. The record is retained in full and held out of crossing counts. Pending review.

Participants

1. Donna Dasko

   CTF-EP-PLI-20180608-AC034DDF-01

   Non-affiliated→ToIndependent Senators GroupParliamentary groupRuled an appointment onboardingWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.How the record counts it: Ruled an appointment onboardingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Marked as a label rather than a party: the database has no party row for this side of the transition. Overwhelmingly this means the member sat as an Independent, and there is deliberately no “Independent” party.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   June 8, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Other affiliation change

   Voluntary

   Voluntary

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

How rare is this?

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

1. PARLINFO records a change of party affiliation from "Non-affiliated" to "Independent Senators Group" effective 2018-06-08.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Medium

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   Concerns a living person

   • PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)

     Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record Donna Dasko | 2018-06-08 | Non-affiliated -> Independent Senators Group — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 217 · MUL

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

1. r3 corrected

   Reclassified as Senate appointment onboarding. Every participation on this record is a senator making the earliest Senate affiliation change this database holds for them, out of non-affiliated status following appointment - institutional onboarding rather than a change of allegiance. The record is retained in full at its original identifier; event_type moves to the "other" sentinel so it leaves the crossing-countable types, the titles name the class, and a summary states the rule. appointed_status was reset from "yes" to "unknown" on 1 participation(s): that column records whether an appointment FOLLOWED the change, which no source on disk establishes for these records. No date, person, party, participant, source, publication status or verification level was altered.

   September 1, 2026

2. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/donna-dasko-independent-senators-group-2018, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/donna-dasko-independent-senators-group-2018, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

3. r1 created

   Created from the Library of Parliament PARLINFO affiliation-change record (class C8b_senator_onboarding).

   September 1, 2026