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David Codey (61)
Not sure if I should have just called this thread 'The Senate', as this discussion may evolve further, but this opening post centres around the outgoing Stephen Fielding.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/fielding-dumped-as-white-balloon-patron-20110623-1gh18.html
I don't know the ins and outs of this case, but it appears that this new inquiry was going to look into the Qld Govt handling of this incident, rather than trying to find the actual perpetrator, so it seems reasonable to hold and inquiry into it (as the other inquiries have already covered other parts of the incident).
I just wonder why a former sexual abuse victim would not support this vote? Why wouldn't the Greens support this vote?
http://www.smh.com.au/national/fielding-dumped-as-white-balloon-patron-20110623-1gh18.html
I don't know the ins and outs of this case, but it appears that this new inquiry was going to look into the Qld Govt handling of this incident, rather than trying to find the actual perpetrator, so it seems reasonable to hold and inquiry into it (as the other inquiries have already covered other parts of the incident).
I just wonder why a former sexual abuse victim would not support this vote? Why wouldn't the Greens support this vote?
Family First Senator, and sexual abuse survivor Steve Fielding, has been dumped as the patron of White Balloon Day, an awareness campaign for child sexual abuse victims, on his last day in Parliament, for failing to support a Senate inquiry into sexual abuse.
Greens and government Senators also failed to back Independent Senator Nick Xenophon’s motion for a Senate committee to investigate the alleged pack rape of a 14-year-old girl at the John Oxley Youth Detention Centre in Queensland in 1988.