Division Description Changes — Committees — Death Penalty — 19th Jun 2018

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Title

  • Committees — Death Penalty
  • Committees - Death Penalty - Acknowledge continued opposition to death penalty

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Dean Smith</p>
  • <p>I, and also on behalf of Senator McKim, move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the Senate&#8212;</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2018-06-19.246.1) introduced by Liberal Senator [Dean Smith](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/wa/dean_smith) and Greens Senator [Nick McKim](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/tasmania/nick_mckim), which means the motion succeeded. Motions like these don’t make any legal or policy changes by themselves, but can be politically influential because they represent the will of the Senate.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Senate—*
  • > *(a) notes that:*
  • >> *(i) on 18 June 2018, the Australian Parliamentarians Against the Death Penalty hosted a screening of Guilty, an Australian film about the final 72-hours in the life of Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal who, along with Andrew Chan, was executed by a firing squad in Indonesia on 29 April 2015, and*
  • >> *(ii) on World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, screenings of Guilty are being held right around Australia to coincide with the Government's efforts to negotiate a resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council; and*
  • > *(b) acknowledges the Government's continued strong opposition to the death penalty and its work in releasing the text of a whole-of-government Strategy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty on 15 June 2018.*
  • <p class="italic">(a) notes that:</p>
  • <p class="italic">&#160;&#160;(i) on 18 June 2018, the Australian Parliamentarians Against the Death Penalty hosted a screening of <i>Guilty</i>, an Australian film about the final 72-hours in the life of Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal who, along with Andrew Chan, was executed by a firing squad in Indonesia on 29 April 2015, and</p>
  • <p class="italic">&#160;&#160;(ii) on World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, screenings of <i>Guilty</i> are being held right around Australia to coincide with the Government's efforts to negotiate a resolution on a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) acknowledges the Government's continued strong opposition to the death penalty and its work in releasing the text of a whole-of-government Strategy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty on 15 June 2018.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p>
  • <p>The question is that general business notice of motion No. 831, standing in the names of Senators Dean Smith and McKim, be agreed to.</p>