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As Parliamentary Leader of Family First NSW, I rise today to speak to you about “Islamophobia”. I believe it is of paramount importance to discuss with the Parliament how social and religious prejudices, particularly against Arabs and Muslims, have begun to shape our country into the new ‘White Australia’.

We have seen in Australia a history [...]

Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES : On behalf of Family First, I speak tonight of an excellent community organisation called Karelle Life Enrichment Service. Located in Mount Druitt, it was founded in 2003 for the purpose of developing the potential in people with an intellectual disability and helping families in crisis. The core business [...]

I have often spoken of the needs of people with dyslexia. That I promoted strongly a special Bill accepting dyslexia as a disability, and have constantly questioned ministers, and participated in our Budget Reviews and special Inquiries, is well known. I am pleased to note some significant developments tonight.

Children with Dyslexia come from one in [...]

Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES [5.17 p.m.]: After we celebrate Christmas Day we have a recovery day on Boxing Day, which was called originally the Feast of St Stephen. Stephen was the first Christian deacon and martyr. You can read about him and his death in Acts 6 and 7 of the Bible. Stephen [...]

In Australia every year about 440 workers are killed in work-related accidents—that equates to more than eight per week.

Today I will speak about an excellent organisation based at Macquarie University called Macquarie Customised Accessibility Services—M-CAS for short.

I rise today to give tribute to the Reverend Robert Richardson Smith who died on the 12th of December 2009, at the age of 91.

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the swearing-in of Lachlan Macquarie as the fifth Governor of the colony of New South Wales. He served in that capacity from 1810 to 1821. Governor Macquarie was born in 1762 to a tenant farming family on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland, where he eventually was buried. At 14 he left his family to join the Army.

Assisted suicide is as old as humanity; it is not a modern phenomenon and the controversies around it are not new. The Hippocratic Oath, written by the “father of medicine”, the Greek physician Hippocrates, and sworn to by new physicians for the past 2,400 years, specifically states, “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan”. This was written because the temptation has always existed to end life when it is seemingly unbearable.

I inform the House about an outstanding Christian ministry that is one of the few initiatives successfully challenging the culture of binge drinking in Australian high schools and colleges, residence halls and meeting places of the young: the Red Frogs Australia Chaplaincy Network.