19th Jun 2018, 4:50 PM – Senate Committees - Death Penalty - Acknowledge continued opposition to death penalty

The majority voted in favour of a motion introduced by Liberal Senator Dean Smith and Greens Senator 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.