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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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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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Report
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On the Order of the Day being read
for the adjourned debate on the question - That the Controlled Substances
(Cannabis Decriminalisation) Amendment Bill be now read a second time:
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On the Order of the
Day being read for the adjourned debate on the question - That the Controlled
Substances (Controlled Drugs, Precursors and Cannabis) Amendment Bill be now
read a second time:
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for medical purposes to
include the trialing of cannabis to eligible patients:
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The package proposed to remove some of the more minor cannabis and other drug offences from the District Court into the Magistrates Court.
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course if they are rescuing things like parts of the eye and parts of the heart that are useful for
medicinal things, there is another story too.
138 Mr KNOLL: They use the pig's eye to practise laser surgery.
139 The Hon.
Standing Committees
52nd Parliament
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The decision-maker
need only state in their reasons for revocation or refusal that it was in the public
interest.18
The concept of criminal intelligence was introduced in the Hydroponics Industry
Control Act 2009 to regulate the sale of hydroponics equipment in order to curtail
the commercial cultivation and production of cannabis, and to reduce the impact of
drugs and drug related crime in the community.
Standing Committees
53rd Parliament
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The decision-maker
need only state in their reasons for revocation or refusal that it was in the public
interest.18
The concept of criminal intelligence was introduced in the Hydroponics Industry
Control Act 2009 to regulate the sale of hydroponics equipment in order to curtail
the commercial cultivation and production of cannabis, and to reduce the impact of
drugs and drug related crime in the community.
Standing Committees
51st Parliament
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South Australia’s 2020 Report Card for children and young people
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Dimension 1: Health
Indicator Children and young people have health-promoting behaviours
Measure Measure detail Age Trend
Proportion of children and young
people being reported as
underweight, overweight or obese
Obese 2-17 years
Unfavourable
change
Proportion of young people smoking
tobacco
Ever smoked tobacco 12-17 years
Favourable
change
Proportion of young people
consuming alcohol
Ever consumed alcohol 12-17 years
Favourable
change
Proportion of young people with
potentially unsafe or binge-drinking
behaviour
Unsafe or binge drinking -
ever
12-17 years No change
Proportion of young people taking
illicit drugs
Ever taken illicit drugs
(including cannabis)
12-17 years
Favourable
change
Proportion of young people taking
illicit drugs
Ever taken cannabis 12-17 years
Favourable
change
Indicator Children and young people are thriving
Measure Measure
Presented by
Hon John Gardner
on
24/09/2020
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54th Parliament