Youth

Appropriations Debate: Community Services Directorate

Thank you, Madam Speaker. When ACT Labor and the Greens really want to get something done, they stop at nothing to make it happen – or to...

Background Checking Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

I had the opportunity to resume debate on the Background Checking Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, which seeks to amend the Children and...

Autism Assessments

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I am pleased to bring this motion before the Assembly today. ‘Autism spectrum disorder … is a persistent...

Appropriations Bill: Community Services Directorate

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Disruptions like Covid have a way of bringing clarity, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses. This has...

Youth Mental Health

Thank you, Madam Speaker, and I thank Mr Petterson for this very important motion. During the last assembly, I served on a committee that...

Safe and Connected Youth – Funding Security

For many years, Canberra kids under age 16 who flee violence, abuse, and the impacts of alcohol or other drugs have had nowhere safe to...

Enhancing the E-scooter Share Scheme

Thank you, Madam Speaker, and I thank Mr Petterson for bringing this motion before the Assembly today. I am not surprised by the large...

Better Academic Support for Kids in Residential Care

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I am proud to bring this motion before the Assembly today. I do so at the urging of some who have worked in...

Reconciliation Week

An Aboriginal leader recently told me that reconciliation requires telling the truth and then genuinely listening to what people say they...

Care Leaver Data Collection

Two days ago, I moved a motion in the Assembly calling for better support for young people who ‘age out’ of the care and protection...

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We need to ‘see’ kids impacted by domestic violence

Tillyard and Ginninderra Drives Intersection

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