HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [9.47 pm]: I rise because I wanted to make some comments about the Australian Electoral Commission donations that were released at the start of this month. We finally got to see some of the donations that were made to political parties as long as 18 months ago, and I think that it is a complete disgrace that so much information can be hidden from the public and, indeed, from other political parties for so long.
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [5.39 pm]: In June 2011, I made a statement in this place about the experience of one of my constituents, who was a public housing tenant and who had a serious mental illness and was facing eviction due to disruptive behaviour—behaviour that was the direct result of suffering a psychotic episode after a significant deterioration in his mental health. I raised my concerns at that time that his case was not isolated and that decisions to terminate tenancies were being made without taking into account people’s specific circumstances.
