Name and shame

On 19 June 2007 The Greens placed a motion before the Senate which read in part: "That the Senate:....(b) calls on the Federal Government to: (i) abandon plans for damming the Clarence, Tweed, Richmond and Mann Rivers;" [C'wealth Hansard,Senate,proof issue,19.06.07,p.p. 33-34].

The motion was defeated by four votes.

Senators who voted not to accept the motion are listed here:
Abetz, E. (LIB), Adams, J. (LIB), Barnett, G. (LIB),
Bernardi, C. (LIB), Birmingham, S. (LIB), Boswell, R.L.D. (NATS),
Boyce, S. (LIB), Calvert, P.H. (LIB), Chapman, H.P.G. (LIB),
Colbeck, R. (LIB),Coonan, H.L. (LIB), Eggleston, A. (LIB),
Ellison, C.M.(LIB), Ferguson, A.B. (LIB), Fielding, S. (FAMILY FIRST),
Fierravanti-Wells, C. (LIB), Fifield, M.P. (LIB), Wells, C. (LIB),
Heffernan, W. (LIB), Fisher, M.J. (LIB), Johnston, D. (LIB),
Humphries, G. (LIB), Kemp, C.R. (LIB), Joyce, B.(NATS),
Macdonald, J.A.L. (NATS), Lightfoot, P.R. (LIB), McGauran, J.J.(LIB),
Mason, B.J. (LIB), Parry, S. (LIB), Nash, F. (NATS),
Ronaldson, M. (LIB), Payne, M.A. (LIB), Troeth, J.M. (LIB),
Scullion, N.G. (COUNTRY LIBERAL), Watson, J.O.W. (LIB),
Trood, R.B.(LIB)

Shame senators, shame. Are you so afraid of Coalition heavies that you would abandon all commonsense.