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In another embarrassing move, the State Government has been forced in to a humiliating backdown on changes to the Retirement Villages Amendment Bill set to be debated in the Upper House on Tuesday. Since the introduction of the Bill in June 2007, Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC has been actively campaigning against the controversial amendment of the Bill which would transfer up to 50 percent of capital replacement costs onto retirement village residents.

Despite all the doom and gloom with the announcement of the State’s Mini Budget, there were pockets of hope when the Rees Government announced a $20 million package to be spent on the Priority Action Schools Program. The increased funding assists over 70 of the State’s most disadvantaged schools in western and south-western Sydney.

The NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care has been forced to apologise for discriminating against a Killarney Vale man. Staff at the Department refused to help Jim Bond complete an application form to be a member of the NSW Disability Council.

“October is the established month of International Breast Cancer Awareness, and the colour pink has been identified for years as the colour of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign. This disgraceful move by the tobacco industry to co-opt the timing, the colour and the feminine-oriented identity of breast cancer awareness, in order to promote a product that has been recently linked to breast cancer, is an extreme example of cynical marketing. This is a desperate and despicable action on the part of this tobacco company!”

In a key question without notice yesterday, Dr Gordon Moyes of the Christian Democratic Party asked the Hon. Eric Roozendaal who represents the Hon. Tony Stewart, Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), to explain the negligent practices of the State Government’s Breast Screen clinics.

Dr Gordon Moyes’ Security Industry Amendment (Patron Protection) Bill was passed with an overwhelming majority in the NSW Legislative Council yesterday. The centrepiece of the Bill is to introduce new measures covering the security industry, including targeted drug and alcohol testing of bouncers and crowd controllers.

The NSW Government has introduced a no-fees policy for all respite centres operated by the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. The move comes after intense and deliberative questioning by Dr Gordon Moyes during the Ageing and Disability Services Budget Estimates Committee hearings that were held last week.

As world leaders will convene in New York on 25 September 2008 for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Forum to renew commitments to help developing countries in their fight against poverty, Upper House Member of Parliament Rev the Hon Dr Gordon Moyes has urged the Federal Government to increase Australia’s contribution to foreign aid.

Stem cell research findings published in the international journal Science have been hailed as putting an end to the stem cell debate on the morality of human cloning and puts an end to the cloning of human embryos to harvest stem cells.

Upper House member Rev Dr Gordon Moyes has supported Prime Minister Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations as an important step towards reconciliation. “The Federal Government’s plan for a formal apology to the stolen generations – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were removed from their families and communities as part of the assimilation policies of the governments of the day, is a welcome and long overdue move,” Dr Moyes said.