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PARLIAMENT

Dam funding - Motion

I oppose the motion moved by the Hon. Sarah Mitchell about building dams. The policy that the Coalition, particularly the National Party, has put forward every single year for 12 years and longer all through the country is to build more dams. But in 2019 the National Party at both...

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Aunty Rita Wright - Adjournment Speech

On Saturday night I had the pleasure of emceeing an event in support of the Voice in Western Sydney. The evening was put on by the Kurdish community at its community centre in Kings Park and five Elders from Mt Druitt had been invited to speak. I want to tell...

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Electoral Funding Bill Report - Portfolio Committee No. 1 - Premier and Finance

I speak as a participating member of the Portfolio Committee No. 1 - Premier and Finance inquiry into the Electoral Funding Amendment Bill 2023. I participated in the inquiry because The Greens wanted to have a say in it, and also because I am a member of the Joint Standing...

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Drug Laws - Question Without Notice

My question is directed to the Minister for Music and the Night-time Economy. In 2019 Deputy State Coroner Harriet Graham had extreme concerns about drug dog operations at music festivals, saying that dogs can precipitate panic ingestion or dangerous preloading, which can in turn increase the risk of serious illness...

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Drug Laws - Take Note Debate

I take note of the response by the Hon. John Graham, the Minister for Music and the Night-time Economy, in response to the two tragic deaths that happened as a result of people attending music festivals over the October long weekend. I note with disappointment the response that most action...

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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

A motion moved by the Hon. Jeremy Buckingham was supported by Cate:  (1) That this House notes that: (a) Australia became the first jurisdiction in the world to allow psychedelic-assisted therapy following a decision of the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA] last year; (b) patients suffering from treatment-resistant depression are showing...

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Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 Speech

Almost a decade ago, on 23 May 2013 I stood in this place as another bill in support of Voluntary Assisted Dying was voted down 23 votes to 13.

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Maules Creek Coalmine Biodiversity Offsets call for papers

Ms CATE FAEHRMANN: I move: That private members' business item No. 448 outside the order of precedence be considered in a short form format. Motion agreed to.

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1080 Baiting – Question Without Notice

Ms CATE FAEHRMANN (12:38:14): My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Environment, the Hon. Don Harwin.

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Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug Ice Private Member's Statement

Ms CATE FAEHRMANN (15:09:59): I have before me a very important report that the Government has just released. It is the report of the special commission of inquiry into crystal methamphetamine and other amphetamine-type stimulants, or ice, which Special Commissioner Dan Howard, SC, has been inquiring into for the past 14 months...

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