Legislative Council, Tuesday 26 November 2024 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Today, I wish to celebrate the achievements of a remarkable young student from Wynyard High School, Willow Cummins. Willow has achieved an incredible milestone by winning the National Legacy Junior Public Speaking competition held in Ballarat on 18 November. The National Legacy Public Speaking competition […]
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Legislative Council, Thursday 28 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for WOMEN and the PREVENTION of FAMILY VIOLENCE, Ms PALMER The Safe at Home program provides an integrated response to families and children who experience family violence. However, this is not available to children who are victims in their own right if their relationship […]
Legislative Council, Thursday 28 November 2024 Ms FORREST, question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the announcement from the Australian Government to commit $75m of funding for the Greater South East Irrigation Scheme: 1. Has the Government obtained a commitment from the Australian Government to quarantine […]
Legislative Council, Thursday 21 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for INFRASTRUCTURE, Mr VINCENT Down in my beautiful part of Circular Head, I drove the road from Smithton to Marrawah. Not to remind myself how bad the road is, but because I needed to go to Marrawah. The road is in terrible condition. It […]
Legislative Council, Wednesday 20 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for WOMEN and the PREVENTION of FAMILY VIOLENCE, Ms PALMER The Safe at Home program provides an integrated response to families and children who experience family violence. However, this is not available to children who are victims in their own right if their relationship […]
Legislative Council, Wednesday 20 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for WOMEN AND THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIOLENCE, Ms PALMER Recently, I noted in this place a report about intimate partner violence amongst young people and children and my question to the minister is whether she will consider developing a dedicated intimate partner violence […]
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Legislative Council, Wednesday 20 November 2024 Ms FORREST, question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to capital works projects within all departments, offices or entities including government business enterprises and state-owned companies, can the government: (1) Provide a full list of all capital works projects valued at […]
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Legislative Council, Tuesday 19 November 2024 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, in noting the motion I acknowledge that the vast majority of work done that is reported in this report was done in the last parliament. The report was actually signed off by the committee of the 50th Parliament but could not be tabled […]
Legislative Council, Tuesday 19 November 2024 Mr VINCENT – This is from 31 October in response to the review into the line of sight at 17006 Bass Highway, Flowerdale. I can advise the project manager and the traffic engineer from the Department of State Growth visited the property owner on 16 May 2024 to discuss […]
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Legislative Council, Tuesday 19 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for INFRASTRUCTURE, Mr VINCENT The minister made some public comments around what may or may not occur with a second Cam River bridge. I understand the report was not going to be provided to the minister until early next year. It appears he might […]
Legislative Council, Thursday 21 November 2024 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the construction of personal bush fire shelters, and the National Construction Code (Volume 2 Section A5G3 (1)) providing, in part, that ‘evidence to support that the use of a material, product, form […]
Legislative Council, Tuesday 26 November 2024 Willow Cummins, a student from Wynyard High School, has achieved an incredible milestone by winning the National Legacy Public Speaking Competition recently. You can listen to my Special Interest speech about Willow here: The transcript of this speech can be viewed here: https://ruthforrest.com.au/parliament/speeches/special-interest/1284-willow-cummins-wynyard-high-public-speaking-competition-winner […]
