Speeches

The Music Festivals Bill 2019 seeks to require organisers of "high-risk" festivals, identified as such by the Liquor & Gaming Authority, to comply with approved safety management plans. These safety management plans are related to the medical, emergency and harm reduction measures laid out by the NSW Health music festival guidelines.

I congratulate Summer Hill's One Penny Red on recently being awarded A Good Food Guide chef's hat in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide awards.

I was pleased to speak in debate on the petition about Sydney's lockout laws tabled by the member for Sydney.

The Plastic Shopping Bags (Prohibition on Supply by Retailers) Bill 2019 will end the shameful situation in which New South Wales remains the only State or Territory not to have banned single-use plastic bags.

I spoke to acknowledge the sad passing of Ms Terry Hare of Dulwich Hill, a respected and deeply valued member of the Inner West community and former alderman of Marrickville council during the 1980s.

I spoke on SDN Marrickville Children's Education and Care Centre as it celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday.

The Road Transport Amendment (Mobile Phone Detection) Bill 2019 amends the Road Transport Act 2013 to expand provisions outlawing the use of mobile phone devices whilst driving.

I asked the Deputy Premier about the government's underfunding of the regional seniors transport card.

I spoke on the final vote of the Abortion Law Reform Act, decriminalising abortion after more than a century of inaction.

I spoke on the Inner West War on Food Waste, an important discussion on the role Inner West residents can take to tackle food waste.