X-Message-Number: 7641
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 14:42:54 -0700
From: David Brandt-Erichsen <>
Subject: Australia update

AUATRALIAN SENATE TIPPED TO SUPPORT ANDREWS BILL

With the Senate preparing to vote on the Andrews Euthanasia Laws Bill, only
10 Senators' votes are thought to remain undecided.  Speculation within
Canberra based sources indicate that 36 Senators will vote in support of the
Andrews Bill, and 29 against. If nine out of the 10 undecided opposed the
Bill, a tied vote would result.  Only if all 10, if they are genuinely
undecided, were persuaded to vote against the Andrews Bill, would it be
overturned.  The Andrews Bill will overturn the Northern Territory Rights of
the Terminally Ill Act.

The 10 undecided or undeclared Senators are:-

               State     Party     Parliamentary Fax  Parliamentary Phone

Jim McKiernan  NSW       ALP        06 277 3432         06 277 3416
Helen Coonan   NSW        LP        06 277 3221         06 277 3218
Jeannie Ferris SA         LP        06 277 3443         06 277 3440
Brenda Gibbs   QLD       ALP        06 277 3449         06 277 3447
Susan Knowles  WA         LP        06 277 3120         06 277 3426
David MacGibbon QLD       LP        06 277 3238         06 277 3720
Amanda Vanstone SA        LP        06 273 4117         06 277 7460
John Watson    TAS        LP        06 277 3689         06 277 3685
Ronald Boswell QLD        NP        06 277 3246         06 277 3244
David Brownhill NSW       NP        06 277 3247         06 277 3705


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