How did your MP vote on conscience issues?
Information about Conscience Votes
During the Assembly, there has only been one conscience vote in the ACT and this was on cloning human embryos for destructive research.
Conscience votes are not a comprehensive measure of a politician's values. They are usually only held on sensitive questions of life, and do not apply to other important value matters where politicians usually follow their party's line. Nonetheless, conscience votes do show how a politician approaches a significant ethical question, where their sense of values comes from, and what their personal view is on what we believe to be one of the most important questions of all: the protection of human life from conception to natural death.
How did your local MLA vote?Conscience vote for Human Cloning and Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2007
Vote taken on 3 April 2008
Summary of votes: | Electorate | Party | MLA | Vote |
| Barr, Mr Andrew |
ALP |
Molonglo |
For |
| Berry, Mr Wayne |
ALP |
Ginninderra |
For |
| Burke, Mrs Jacqui |
Liberal |
Molonglo |
Against |
| Corbell, Mr Simon |
ALP |
Molonglo |
For |
| Dunne, Mrs Vicki |
Liberal |
Ginninderra |
Against |
| Foskey, Dr Deb |
ACT Greens |
Molonglo |
For |
| Gallagher, Ms Katy |
ALP |
Molonglo |
For |
| Gentleman, Mr Mick |
ALP |
Brindabella |
For |
| Hargreaves, Mr John |
ALP |
Brindabella |
For |
| MacDonald, Ms Karin |
ALP |
Brindabella |
For |
| Mulcahy, Mr Richard |
Canberra Party |
Molonglo |
Against |
| Porter AM, Ms Mary |
ALP |
Ginninderra |
For |
| Pratt, Mr Steve |
Liberal |
Brindabella |
Against |
| Seselja, Mr Zed |
Liberal |
Molonglo |
Against |
| Smyth, Mr Brendan |
Liberal |
Brindabella |
Against |
| Stanhope, Mr Jon |
ALP |
Ginninderra |
For |
| Stefaniak, Mr Bill |
Liberal |
Ginninderra |
Against |
EMILY's List
EMILY's List is a political network formed to increase the number of women Labor parliamentarians who are willing to support key feminist issues, including abortion. It provides financial, political and personal support to Labor women candidates who agree to support the values of EMILY's List.
It is the only network of its kind in Australian politics. |
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| EMILY's List members and candidates must support the principles of equity, diversity, pro-choice, and the provision of equal pay and childcare, both in the community and in Parliament. Many of these are significant issues but it is concerning that membership of such a network dictates a parliamentarian's vote. For example, EMILY's List members consistently support pro-abortion policies, reflecting both their personal beliefs and their membership of the List. Without exception, every Federal ALP parliamentarian named on EMILY's List voted to support the abortion drug RU486 and to permit the cloning of human embryos for destructive research. |
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Not all female Labor MPs or Senators are EMILY's List members. Unfortunately, in this ACT election every female Labor candidate and sitting MLA are member’s of EMILY’S LIST. Here is the list of people from the EMILY’S LIST website that have been financially supported by them in the past and are therefore committed to voting for pro-abortion policies in conscience votes:
Information taken from www.emilyslist.org.au |
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