Youth
Lee has advocated to advance social justice and to remove policing discrimination against young people. Lee scrutinised the government's handling of Catholic World Youth Day held in Sydney in 2008.
Young people are regularly made the targets of heavy handed policing measures that push the major parties law and order agenda. Lee has been a strong advocate for youth justice issues.
Lee pursued the full extent that the Government made deals for Catholic World Youth Day, including the $40 million of taxpayers money paid to Randwick Race Course, and the Government's excessive law and order approach to World Youth Day.
To see Lee's media releases in the Youth portfolio prior to 2009, see Lee's media archive.
LATEST NEWS:
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QLD abortion case starts today: NSW must repeal outdated laws
- On the day a young Cairns woman and her partner attend court facing criminal charges for procuring an abortion under almost identical laws to those in NSW, Greens MP Lee Rhiannon is seeking cross party support to remove abortion from the NSW Crimes Act.
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World Youth Day cost blowout: independent review needed
- Greens MP Lee Rhiannon says the NSW Auditor-General, not the government, should conduct an independent performance audit of World Youth Day because the government cannot be trusted to provide an impartial, comprehensive evaluation of the event.
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Young people from diverse sexualities - the right of access and equity
- I acknowledge we meet on Aboriginal land and I pay tribute to their elders. We live in contradictory times. In this country attitudes and services for people of diverse sexualities are very variable.
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