Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator McKim, move:

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.

Sue Lines (WA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 831, standing in the names of Senators Dean Smith and McKim, be agreed to.

Sue Lines (WA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I inform the chamber that there were two voices calling for the division, and one of those people left the chamber before the vote.