Page 1518 - Week 05 - Thursday, 13 May 2021
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On the following night I was very pleased to be back at the Theo Notaras Centre again to join the Multicultural Hub for a women’s iftar event. Again it was a fantastic turnout and very special to join together as women.
An enormous amount of work goes into these larger events and I sincerely want to thank and commend the hardworking staff at the Office of Multicultural Affairs for all of their work in engaging with the local community and ensuring that Thursday night was such a good event.
I also want to thank and commend Zakia Patel from the Multicultural Hub for her leadership and vision in bringing together Friday’s event and ensuring that women from across the multicultural community were welcomed and that it was inclusive of different cultures. Eid Mubarak.
And while I just have a few more minutes, I just want to draw the Assembly’s attention. The opposition does have a habit of selectively quoting. Earlier today during the debate on Ms Orr’s excellent and very sensitive motion about the Indian community, Mrs Jones appeared to take great delight in quoting from Labor members.
But she conveniently missed that there was a motion moved in the Senate today by Labor members condemning the Indian travel ban and calling on the government to help Australians in India return rather than jailing them and fix our quarantine system rather than leaving our fellow Australians stranded. And interestingly enough, Senator Matthew Canavan crossed the floor to support that.
So it is worth putting on the record all the comments and concerns that are held across a broad cross-section of our community and our parliaments. Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 5.54 pm until Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 10.00 am.
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