HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.10 pm]: I rise having been inspired by starting to read some of the annual reports that have been tabled recently and also by having read a number of reports that have come out on prisons. As a result, I want to make some comments about the status of services in prisons at the moment. I could talk about many of them.
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [5.31 pm]: I rise to say a few words to mark the upcoming International Stuttering Awareness Day, which is next Monday, 22 October. Monday will mark 21 years of Stuttering Awareness Day. The Australian Speak Easy Association is the peak body for Australians who have the lived experienced of stuttering. Speech Pathology Australia is the peak body of speech therapists, and both of these groups have released a joint awareness statement, which was read by Mark Irwin, the president of ASEA.
