Sandra Kanck

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Sandra Kanck is an Australian politician and the sole Australian Democrats member in the South Australian Legislative Council. After June 2008, when the new term for the Federal Senate begins, she will be the only Australian Democrats member in any form of Parliament in Australia. She was first elected in 1993 and was re-elected for a second eight-year term in the 2002 election.

Kanck considers herself to be an occasional singer, former teacher, social justice campaigner, and environmentalist.

On 14 March 2001 Kanck introduced the Dignity in Dying Bill, 2001 and has acknowledged that the bill was drafted in large part by the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES). In August, 2006, Kanck defied government requests not to discuss suicide methods in a parliamentary speech on legalising voluntary euthanasia^[1]. The speech, suppressed from the parliament's internet record by a narrowly resolved Legislative Council vote, was published elsewhere.^[2].

In May, 2006, she controversially advocated the therapeutic use of MDMA (identified in news media as "ecstasy" or "the base ingredient in ecstasy")^[3].