Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Greens NSW spokesperson on multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism
2017 BUDGET ESTIMATES
Budget Estimates was held from 31 August to 8 September 2017 and it is an opportunity for MPs to question Ministers directly. It is also an opportunity to submit questions on notice. Dr Faruqi attended the sessions for the below portfolios or submitted questions on notice. This information is also available on the NSW Parliament Budget […]
Notice of Motion: White Rakhi Project
Dr MEHREEN FARUQI: I move: (1) That this House notes that: (a) the White Rakhi Project was launched on 31 August 2017 at the University of New South Wales; (b) the project’s name White Rakhi refers to the Hindu tradition of “Raksha Bandhan” which is a celebration of the bonds, obligations and respect between people; […]
motion ROHINGYA PEOPLE HUMAN RIGHTS
Dr MEHREEN FARUQI ( 11:06 ): I seek leave to amend Private Member’s Business item No. 1578 Outside the Order of Precedence as follows: (1)Omit paragraph (1) (c). (2)Omit all words in paragraph (2) and insert instead: (2)That this House calls for an end to violence and the violation of the Rohingya people’s human rights. Leave granted. Dr MEHREEN […]
Adjournment Speech: Rohingya People Genocide
Dr MEHREEN FARUQI ( 21:33 ): In a matter of just two weeks, more than 300,000 Rohingya people have fled over the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Many of them have lost their entire families to attacks by the Myanmar army. That is nearly one-third of the 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who have lived under systemic abuse, targeted violence […]
Greens MP Calls on NSW Government to Step in and Support Refugees Left Destitute by the Federal Government’s Welfare Cuts
Greens MP and Spokesperson for Multiculturalism, Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC has called on the NSW Government to provide support to all refugees and asylum seekers in NSW who will be left destitute by the Federal Government’s cruel policy changes. Dr. Faruqi said: “The most vulnerable of people and their families are being coerced into leaving […]
MOTION: Four Years of “PNG” Solution
Dr Faruqi to move— 1. That this House notes that: (a) 19 July 2017 marked four years since the then Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the ‘PNG solution’ to establish an offshore detention centre on Manus Island, (b) at the time, Mr Rudd declared that any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat would […]
Motion: Four years of “PNG Solution”
Dr Faruqi to move: That this house notes that: 19th July 2017 marked four years since the then Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the “PNG solution” to establish an offshore detention centre on Manus Island. At the time, Mr. Rudd declared that any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance […]
MOTION: THIRD ANNUAL UNITY IN DIVERSITY FESTIVAL
Dr MEHREEN FARUQI ( 10:11 ): I move: (1)That this House notes that: (a)the third annual Unity in Diversity festival was held in Newcastle on 1 July 2017; (b)the festival is an initiative of the Newcastle Unity in Diversity group, which comprises members of Refugee Action Network Newcastle, Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors […]
Speech – Citizenship Laws
Citizenship Laws Dr MEHREEN FARUQI ( 18:00 :05 ): The Federal Government is looking to make sweeping changes to citizenship laws, which will hurt thousands of people who are working, studying and raising families in Australia. The changes are utterly unnecessary. It seems that these laws are just about targeting migrants, even though more than […]
Notice of Motion – AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ETHNOCULTURAL WEEK
Dr MEHREEN FARUQI ( 11:05 ): I move: (1) That this House notes that: (a) the inaugural Ethnocultural Week at the Australian National University [ANU] was held from 8 to 12 May 2017 at the ANU campus in Canberra; (b) the theme of the week was “New Blue”, a play on the term “True Blue”; […]
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