Speech – Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Worker Harm) Bill 2020

Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party has, for some time, been pushing for the type of action that is reflected in this Bill. There is an unmistakable and urgent need for changes to this area of law that better safeguarded emergency workers from assaults, and more effectively prevented the perpetrators of such assaults from avoiding minimum sentences.

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Question without Notice – Health spending priorities

My question is to the Health Minister, Ms Mikakos. Billions of dollars of unscheduled expenditure is being spent in the health portfolio, can she now tell us how COVID-19 expenditure pressures have altered the Government’s overall future spending priorities (and savings priorities) in the Health portfolio for the remainder of the two-and-a-half years of this term of Parliament?

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