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13 Aug 2007 · 3:50 PM · Division 2

Yangtze River Dolphin

Implement management plans
Official title
Motions - Yangtze River Dolphin - Implement management plans

Noes in the majority

This says only which side won the vote, because what Aye and No meant here depends on the exact question put in the chamber.

Aye
29
No
34
Not recorded voting
13

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding.

What was decided

The majority voted against a motion that "calls on the Government to ensure the implementation of Australian law, requiring management plans to lift creatures facing extinction to greater safety in Australia".

Motion text

That the Senate—

(a) notes with regret:

(i) news of the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin, and

(ii) that this is the first large vertebrate to be forced to extinction by human activity in 50 years and only the fourth time since the year 1500 that an entire evolutionary line of mammals has vanished from the face of the earth; and

(b) calls on the Government to ensure the implementation of Australian law, requiring management plans to lift creatures facing extinction to greater safety in Australia.

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Policies this vote counts towards

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Votes by party

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Aye
30
No
35
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Liberal Party027
Australian Labor Party220
Australian Greens40
National Party04
Australian Democrats20
Senate President11
Country Liberal Party01
Deputy Senate President01
Family First Party10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 30

No · 35

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