ChillOut Festival
Mar 18, 2015
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — I raise a matter for the Minister for Equality. This month I had the great opportunity of attending the ChillOut Festival in Daylesford. It was a wonderful day, and it was a shame about my friends from the north — Mr Drum, I missed you there! But it was a lovely day out, and it was wonderful — —
Mr Drum — I missed you too!
Ms PATTEN — Yes, I know. Next time we will bootscoot together. It was a beautiful day, and it was great to see the acceptance of diversity that people in regional areas have embraced. I mentioned bootscooting because the line dancers...
Cyclist Safety
Mar 17, 2015
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — On 1 March I attended the Sydney Road festival and the wonderful Brunswick Music Festival. They were joyfilled events that were crammed with tens of thousands of locals enjoying the spirit of the day.
There was, however, a shadow over the mood that you could just sense amongst the crowd that day. It came on the back of a very sad day when a young man had been tragically killed after a cycling accident on the same road where locals were celebrating — a dooring incident that had shocked and saddened everyone. My heart goes out to his family and...
California Visit
Feb 9, 2015
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — I am very pleased to see all my colleagues again and am looking forward to spending some real quality time with them all this year. Like many students in my region I must say I was almost standing at the door waiting for the bells to ring so that I could come in.
Last month I travelled to California, where I spoke at a conference on new technologies and the regulation of them with regard to adult material. It was fascinating. As many of us know, the adult industry leads the way in developing new technologies...