How They Voted

Here is how the Lower House MPs voted recently on the Abortion Law Reform Bill (2008):

FOR: 49 VOTES Jacinta Allan (ALP Bendigo East) Daniel Andrews (ALP Mulgrave) Louise Asher (Lib Brighton)  Ted Baillieu (Lib Hawthorn) Ann Barker (ALP Oakleigh) Peter Batchelor (ALP Thomastown) Liz Beattie (ALP Yuroke)  Colin Brooks (ALP Bundoora) John Brumby (ALP Broadmeadows) Carlo Carli (ALP Brunswick) Michael Crutchfield (ALP South Barwon) Lily D’Ambrosio (ALP Mill Park) Joanne Duncan (ALP Macedon) John Eren (ALP Lara) Martin Foley (ALP Albert Park) Danielle Green (ALP Yan Yean)  Ben Hardman (ALP Seymour) Alistair Harkness (ALP Frankston)  Joe Helper (ALP Ripon)  Steve Herbert (ALP Eltham) Tim Holding (ALP Lyndhurst) Rob Hudson (ALP Bentleigh) Craig Ingram (Ind Gippsland East) Lynne Kosky (ALP Altona) Craig Langdon (ALP Ivanhoe) Hong Lim (ALP Clayton) Tony Lupton (ALP Prahran) Judy Maddigan (ALP Essendon) Maxine Morand (ALP Mt Waverley) David Morris (LIB Mornington) Janice Munt (ALP Mordialloc) Don Nardella (ALP Melton) Lisa Neville (ALP Bellarine) Wade Noonan (ALP Williamstown) Karen Overington (ALP Ballarat West) Tim Pallas (ALP Tarneit) John Pandazopoulos (ALP Dandenong) Jude Perera (ALP Cranbourne) Bronwyn Pike (ALP Melbourne)  Jeanette Powell (NAT Shepparton) Fiona Richardson (ALP Northcote) Tony Robinson (ALP Mitcham) Robin Scott (ALP Preston) Helen Shardey (LIB Caulfield) Bob Stensholt (ALP Burwood) Marsha Thomson (ALP Footscray) Ian Tresize (ALP Geelong) Mary Wooldridge (LIB Doncaster) Richard Wynne (ALP Richmond)

AGAINST: 32 VOTES Gary Blackwood (LIB Narracan) Neale Burgess (LIB Hastings) Bob Cameron (ALP Bendigo West) Christine Campbell (ALP Pascoe Vale) Robert Clark (LIB Box Hill) Peter Crisp (NAT Mildura) Hugh Delahunty (NAT Lowan) Martin Dixon (LIB Nepean) Luke Donnellan (ALP Narre Warren Nth) Christine Fyffe (LIB Evelyn) David Hodgett (LIB Kilsyth) Rob Hulls (ALP Niddrie) Marlene Kairouz )ALP Kororoit) Nicholas Kotsiras (LIB Bulleen) Tammy Lobato (ALP Gembrook) Kirstie Marshall (ALP Forest Hill) Andrew McIntosh (LIB Kew) James Merlino (ALP Monbulk) Terry Mulder (LIB Polwarth) Denis Napthine (LIB South-West Coast) Russell Northe (NAT Morwell) Michael O’Brien (LIB Malvern) Peter Ryan (NAT Gippsland South) George Seitz (ALP Keilor) Ken Smith (LIB Bass) Ryan Smith (LIB Warrandyte) Murray Thompson (LIB Sandringham) Bill Tilley (LIB Benambra) Heidi Victoria (LIB Bayswater) Nick Wakeling (LIB Ferntree Gully) Peter Walsh (NAT Swan Hill) Paul Weller (NAT Rodney) Kim Wells (LIB Scoresby)

Here is how the Upper House MPs voted recently on the Abortion Law Reform Bill (2008):

FOR: 23 Votes

AGAINST: 17 Votes

Greg Barber - Greens Candy Broad - Labor Andrea Coote - Liberal Kaye Darveniza - Labor David Davis - Liberal Philip Davis - Liberal Khalil Eideh - Labor Peter Hall - Nationals Colleen Hartland - Greens Gavin Jennings - Labor David Koch - Liberal Shaun Leane - Labor Wendy Lovell - Liberal Justin Madden - Labor Jenny Mikakos - Labor Martin Pakula - Labor Sue Pennicuik - Greens Jaala Pulford - Labor Johan Scheffer - Labor Brian Tee - Labor Evan Thornley - Labor Gayle Tierney - Labor Matthew Viney – Labor

Bruce Atkinson - Liberal Richard Dalla-Riva - Liberal Damian Drum - Nationals Nazih Elasmar - Labor Bernie Finn - Liberal Matthew Guy - Liberal Peter Kavanagh - Democratic Labor Party Jan Kronberg - Liberal John Lenders - Labor Ed O'Donohue - Liberal Donna Petrovich - Liberal Inga Peulich - Liberal Gordon Rich-Phillips - Liberal Bob Smith - Labor Adem Somyurek - Labor Theo Theophanous - Labor John Vogels – Liberal

We must now write to our local members, and either lavishly praise them for voting against this bill, or firmly yet politely and respectfully critique them for voting for the bill. You can find all the email details of these MPs here: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/mlcs.html

Please contact your local Upper House members. Please show them how grateful you are if they voted for life. Please express your very deep concern if they voted for death. If you do not live in Victoria, you can still contact these MPs and share your views.