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An increasing percentage of the Priority 1 and
Priority 2 electrical breaches were identified during OTR audits conducted with SA
Police on premises that were cultivating cannabis.
Presented by
Hon Patrick Conlon
on
17/11/2009
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The concept can be used broadly, for
example substance misuse and depression, or it can be restricted to specify
severe mental illness such as:
• psychosis,
• schizophrenia;
• a substance misuse issue such as cannabis or methamphetamine use;
• a person who has a milder mental illness such as panic disorder, anxiety
disorder; or
• intellectual disability such as ASD or FASD.
Presented by
Ms Dana Wortley
on
08/09/2015
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Farley’s statistics on prostitution are complied below:
• the average entry age into prostitution is 13;
• 65% to 95% of prostituted women have been sexually assaulted or raped before they entered prostitution;
• nearly half of prostitutes were victims of incest;
• 83% of prostituted women are addicted to substances such as heroin, cocaine, cannabis and alcohol;
• 54% of prostitutes suffer from very severe depression;
• 42% of prostitutes had at least committed one suicide attempt, many suffering from psychological
disorders;
• 75% of women in prostitution are or have been homeless at some point in their lives;
• 70% to 95% of women in prostitution working in the street have been physically assaulted during the
exercise of prostitution;
• 41% of women were attacked in brothels;
• 60% to 75% of people were raped while in prostitution; and
• 85% and 95% want to leave prostitution, but have no other means of survival.
Select Committees
53rd Parliament
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There is
mounting interest in culinary and medicinal herbs in the community and it is considered the Herb
Garden will serve a valuable role in this respect.
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(6) The applicant must provide the Board with the following information as to the state of the
applicant's health:
(a) information relating to medical advice, examination or treatment received by the
applicant;
(b) information as to any other treatment received by the applicant for any illness,
condition or disability suffered by the applicant;
(c) information as to any illness, condition or disability suffered by the applicant or any
symptoms suffered by the applicant that may indicate an illness, condition or
disability;
(d) information as to any drugs or other substances (whether legal or illegal and
whether medicinal or not) taken by the applicant or to which the applicant has been
exposed,
and the Board may require an applicant to provide satisfactory evidence of the state of the
applicant's health
Presented by
Hon Kevin Foley
on
08/09/2009
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`Alternative' medicine continued to expand during 1980, particularly the sale of `natural' and
`herbal' medicinal preparations.
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Other O O
Subtotal 6 32
TA General Orders 4 13
TB Keeping of records O O
TZ Other 8 13
Subtotal 12 26
UA Failure to forward complaint 1 2
UB Failure to investigate complaint 1 7
UC Failure to receive complaint 7 23
UZ Other O 2
Subtotal 9 34
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VA Harassment 55 114
VB Improper direction 4 7
VC Expired restraint order O O
VD Cease loiter direction 2 8
VE Intervention in civil disputes 13 15
VF Discriminatory treatment 9 46
VG Telecommunications 2 2
VZ Other 5 11
Subtotal 90 203
WA Discharge of firearms 2 3
WB Display of firearms 11 15
WC Seizure of firearms 3 9
WZ Other 12 16
Subtotal 28 43
XA Disclosure of confidential information 26 46
XB Giving incorrect information 10 26
XC Refusal to divulge information 2 8
XD Failure to respond to enquiries 10 17
XE Privacy Information Principles 0 0
XF Freedom of Information 0 1
XZ Other 1 3
Subtotal 49 101
YA Control of drugs and narcotics 1 3
YB Sale or supply of drugs 3 7
YC Personal use of drugs O 1
YD Cannabis
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We have had some minor cannabis expiation notices, but the bulk of it is what we
call 'residual admits', so people have taken drugs within the last 24 hours or so, so that odour is still
on them, but they don't have anything on them at the time.
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54th Parliament
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This charge
related to a cannabis cultivation grown in conjunction with former Chief
Inspector Barry Malcolm MOYSE of the South Australia Police
Department Drug Squad
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Funded Training Programs Committee RANZCP
• 2021 – Honorary Research Associate – Telethon Kids Institute
• 2019 – Clinical lead, Psychiatry and Chair of Rural and Remote Mental Health Practice, The
Rural Clinical School of WA, University of Western Australia
• 2019 – Rural Advisor, Editorial Board, Australasian Psychiatry RANZCP
• 2019 – Binational Chair, Rural Section of Psychiatry RANZCP
• 2013 – Consultant Psychiatrist, WA Country Health Service
Past
• 2020-2022 Commissioner, National Mental Health Commission
• 2021 – Expert Advisory Group – Mental health and wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic on rural and remote individuals and communities
• 2018-2020 Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Better Mental Health Care in Rural
Emergency Departments working group
• 2018-2019 Steering Committee, Methamphetamine Action Plan, Department of Health WA
• 2017-2021 WA Representative, Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry RANZCP
• 2017-2018 Expert Panel for Medicinal
Presented by
Hon C J Picton
on
14/09/2023
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