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Estimates Committees Roundup
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Mon, 11/09/2006 - 4:00pm.
Did the Coalition actually do any work over the parliamentary recess?
The past two weeks have seen every Minister attend an estimates committee meeting.
Estimates committees are an opportunity for Legislative Committee members from all parties to examine the expenditure for the upcoming year being proposed by the Government.
In practice they have a very wide brief that means that members can ask questions about any matter within a Minister’s portfolio.
It is a golden opportunity to interrogate a Minister and expose any problems within his or her portfolio.
HIV/AIDS –the importance of bipartisanship
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Fri, 25/08/2006 - 4:00pm.
Last night I attended the 21st Anniversary for ACON (AIDS Council of NSW). It was an evening of both reflection and celebration.
Reflection that in 25 years the HIV/AIDS epidemic has infected 70 million people worldwide and claimed 30 million lives. In Australia we have lost 6500 people, 3600 of them in NSW.
Celebration of how communities, and in the Australian context the GLBT community, can build a strong and dedicated community organisation that was prepared to fight the crisis unfolding around them.
