How did your MP vote on conscience issues?

About Conscience Votes

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.

Listed below is how your MP voted on a number of important Bills brought before Parliament.

 

How did your local Member vote?

Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Amendment Act 2007 – voting record (11 Oct 2007). Despite this Bill's misleading title, it allows human embryos to be cloned and then killed for research purposes.

Summary of votes:

ElectoratePartyMPCloning voteEmily’s List
Mount Ommaney ALP Attwood, Mrs Julie Opposed  
Aspley ALP Barry, Ms Veronica Supported Yes (2006)
South Brisbane ALP Bligh, Hon Ms Anna Supported Yes (2006)
Chatsworth ALP Bombolas, Mr Chris Supported  
Cairns ALP Boyle, Hon Ms Desley Supported Yes (2006)
Capalaba ALP Choi, Mr Michael Opposed  
Cunningham LNP Copeland, Mr Stuart Opposed  
Hinchinbrook LNP Cripps, Mr Andrew Opposed  
Broadwater ALP Croft, Ms Peta-Kaye Supported  
Gladstone IND Cunningham, Mrs Elizabeth Opposed  
Sandgate ALP Darling, Ms Vicky Supported Yes (2006)
Bundaberg LNP Dempsey, Mr John Opposed  
Kawana LNP Dickson, Mr Steven Supported  
Noosa LNP Elmes, Mr Glen Opposed  
Redlands ALP English, Mr John Absent  
Greenslopes ALP Fenlon, Mr Gary Supported  
Yeerongpilly ALP Finn, Mr Simon Supported  
Moggill LNP Flegg, Dr Bruce Opposed  
Maryborough IND Foley, Mr Christopher Opposed  
Mount Coot-tha ALP Fraser, Hon Andrew Supported  
Gympie LNP Gibson, Mr David Opposed  
Brisbane Central ALP Grace, Ms Grace [Elected after vote]  
Gaven ALP Gray, Mr Philip Supported  
Kallangur ALP Hayward, Hon Kenneth Supported  
Stafford ALP Hinchliffe, Mr Stirling Supported  
Warrego LNP Hobbs, Mr Howard Supported  
Keppel ALP Hoolihan, Paul Supported  
Darling Downs LNP Hopper, Mr Raymond Opposed  
Toowoomba South LNP Horan, Mr Michael Opposed  
Whitsunday ALP Jarratt, Ms Janice Supported Yes (2006)
Gregory LNP Johnson, Mr Vaughan Opposed  
Ashgrove ALP Jones, Ms Kate Supported  
Albert ALP Keech, Hon Mrs Margaret Supported Yes (2006)
Mount Isa ALP Kiernan, Mrs Betty Opposed  
Charters Towers LNP Knuth, Mr Shane Opposed  
Surfers Paradise LNP Langbroek, Mr John-Paul Supported  
Kurwongbah ALP Lavarch, Mrs Linda Supported  
Southport ALP Lawlor, Mr Peter Supported  
Indooroopilly GRN Lee, Mr Ronan Opposed  
Tablelands ONP Lee Long, Ms Rosa Opposed  
Beaudesert LNP Lingard, Hon Kevin Supported  
Lytton ALP Lucas, Hon Paul Opposed  
Glass House ALP Male, Ms Carolyn Supported  
Mirani LNP Malone, Mr George Opposed  
Caloundra LNP McArdle, Mr Mark Opposed  
Hervey Bay ALP McNamara, Hon Andrew Supported  
Burdekin LNP Menkens, Mrs Rosemary Opposed  
Burnett LNP Messenger, Mr Robert Opposed  
Logan ALP Mickel, Hon John Opposed  
Bundamba ALP Miller, Mrs Jo-Ann Opposed Yes (2006)
Waterford ALP Moorhead, Mr Evan Supported  
Mackay ALP Mulherin, Hon Timothy Absent  
Mundingburra ALP Nelson-Carr, Hon Ms Lindel Supported Yes (2006)
Clayfield LNP Nicholls, Mr Timothy Supported  
Ipswich ALP Nolan, Ms Rachel Supported Yes (2006)
Cook ALP O'Brien, Mr Jason Supported  
Inala ALP Palaszczuk, Ms Annastacia Supported  
Fitzroy ALP Pearce, Mr James Supported  
Mulgrave ALP Pitt, Hon Frederick Opposed  
Nanango IND Pratt, Mrs Dorothy Opposed  
Bulimba ALP Purcell, Mr Patrick Opposed  
Mansfield ALP Reeves, Mr Philip Supported  
Mudgeeraba ALP Reilly, Mrs Dianne Supported Yes (2006)
Townsville ALP Reynolds, Hon Michael [Speaker]  
Lockyer LNP Rickuss, Mr Ian Supported  
Nudgee ALP Roberts, Hon Neil Supported  
Stretton ALP Robertson, Hon Stephen Supported  
Rockhampton ALP Schwarten, Hon Robert Supported  
Woodridge ALP Scott, Mrs Desley Supported  
Callide LNP Seeney, Mr Jeffrey Supported  
Toowoomba North ALP Shine, Hon Kerry Opposed  
Maroochydore LNP Simpson, Ms Fiona Opposed  
Burleigh ALP Smith, Mrs Christine Opposed  
Mount Gravatt ALP Spence, Hon Ms Judith Supported Yes (2006)
Southern Downs LNP Springborg, Mr Lawrence Opposed  
Robina LNP Stevens, Mr Raymond Supported  
Springwood ALP Stone, Ms Barbara Supported Yes (2006)
Algester ALP Struthers, Ms Karen Supported Yes (2006)
Currumbin LNP Stuckey, Mrs Janet Supported  
Pumicestone ALP Sullivan, Mrs Carryn Supported  
Redcliffe ALP van Litsenburg, Ms Elisabeth Opposed  
Thuringowa ALP Wallace, Hon Craig Absent  
Cleveland ALP Weightman, Mr Phillip Absent  
Everton ALP Welford, Hon Rodney Absent  
Nicklin IND Wellington, Mr Peter Opposed  
Murrumba ALP Wells, Hon Dean Supported  
Ipswich West ALP Wendt, Mr Wayne Supported  
Barron River ALP Wettenhall, Mr Stephen Supported  
Ferny Grove ALP Wilson, Hon Geoffrey Opposed  

 

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.

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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