Birth happens days before Labor and Coalition block bill to ban ‘barbaric practice’ of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth
  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I think this allowing this when they had the chance to vote to ban this should be a great shame on the 24 senators who voted no to banning it: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber%2Fhansards%2F29247%2F&sid=0000#divisionContainer1

    Shame on the following 24 senators for voting to allow this barbaric shackling to continue:

    • Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Australian Labor Party)
    • Leah Blyth (Liberal Party of Australia)
    • Carol Brown (Australian Labor Party)
    • Anthony Chisholm (Australian Labor Party)
    • Raffaele Ciccone (Australian Labor Party)
    • Lisa Darmanin (Australian Labor Party)
    • Josh Dolega (Australian Labor Party)
    • Richard Dowling (Australian Labor Party)
    • Chris Gatenby (Liberal Party of Australia)
    • Varun Ghosh (Australian Labor Party)0
    • Karen Grogan (Australian Labor Party)
    • Jenny McAllister (Australian Labor Party)
    • Deborah O’Neill (Australian Labor Party)
    • James Paterson (Liberal Party of Australia)
    • Helen Polley (Australian Labor Party)
    • Anne Ruston (Liberal Party of Australia)
    • Anthony Sheldon (Australian Labor Party)
    • Marielle Smith (Australian Labor Party)
    • Glenn Sterle (Australian Labor Party)
    • Jana Stewart (Australian Labor Party)
    • Tammy Tyrrell (Australian Labor Party)
    • Charlotte Walker (Australian Labor Party)
    • Jess Walsh (Australian Labor Party)
    • Ellie Whiteaker (Australian Labor Party)

    And congratulations to the following 10 senators who were on the right side of history, even though they didn’t have the numbers:

    • Elizabeth Allman-Payne (Australian Greens)
    • Vicki Bleyer (Australian Greens)
    • Mehreen Faruqi (Australian Greens)
    • Steph Hodgins-May (Australian Greens)
    • Nick McKim (Australian Greens)
    • Fatima Payman (Independent)
    • Barbara Pocock (Australian Greens)
    • David Pocock (Independent)
    • David Shoebridge (Australian Greens)
    • Lidia Thorpe (Independent)