Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the imprisonment since November 2005 by the Ethiopian Government of members of the main opposition party, representatives of civic organisations and the banned free press, and

(ii)

these prisoners are declared by Amnesty International to be prisoners of conscience; and

(b)

urges the Government to make representations to the Ethiopian Government asking for the release of these prisoners of conscience, and to accept the results of the 2005 democratic election.

Question negatived.

Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I ask that the Australian Greens support for that motion be recorded.

Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I ask that Family First’s support for that motion be recorded.

John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That will be done accordingly.