Sandra Kanck

Democrats nominee David Winderlich filled the upper house casual vacancy in a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia in February 2009.

[1][2] Sandra Kanck (née Cederblad) was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales with six younger siblings and she credits the associated financial poverty and her Methodist Church upbringing to many of her views about inequality and injustice.

Continuing her anti-nuclear activism, in 2009, she authored, on behalf of the Australian Democrats (SA Division Inc.) a substantial submission in response to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Olympic Dam mine expansion.

The bill was drafted in large part by the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES),[3] of which she has since been awarded life membership.

In August 2006, Kanck ignored government requests not to discuss suicide methods in a parliamentary speech on legalising voluntary euthanasia.

[citation needed] The "Mullighan Inquiry" (named after Commissioner Ted Mulligan) into the sexual abuse of children in state care and on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara lands made 54 recommendations for action in its final report, published in March 2008.

Kanck was successful in moving a motion to refer the matter of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity to the Social Development Committee.