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Submitted by Penny on Sun, 27/09/2009 - 9:46am.

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I write this at the end of a busy parliamentary week.

Tuesday was OneWebDay. The theme of OneWebDay was about what action can be taken to close the digital divide. Around 40 people gathered at parliament house to hear about the ABC Pool project and the Glebebytes project. The Upper House passed a motion and I made a speech about the need to close the digital divide.

This week the government:

Issued an apology on behalf of NSW to the ‘Forgotten Australians' and provided $9mllion for support services
introduced new laws to combat truancy that will support case management and referal to services rather than just fine parents who do not send their kids to school
announced that the 2009 NSW Writer's Fellowship has been awarded to Anna Funder, author of the acclaimed non-fiction book, Stasiland.
reached an agreement with the Commonwaelth that allows NSW farmers to sell their water entitlements to the Federal Government to return to the Murray-Darling Basin

We also passed a lot of legislation in the Upper House, including the:

Website of the week: Information is Beautiful
Video of the week: Videos from NSW Public Sphere are online now!

Regards
Penny

P.S. Congratulations to Ken Davis and Graeme Browning (AKA Mitzi Macintosh) who were celebrated at ACON's annual Honour event last night.

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