This week on The Wigs we bring you a special episode, the inaugural speech of the Honourable Stephen Lawrence MLC, elected at the recent NSW State election to the upper house, or Legislative Council. Stephen was the first of all newly elected Upper House members to make an inaugural speech. Until such time as they make their first speech, new members cannot speak on any business of the house. Stephen has been using his freedom to talk in the house since regularly, - on a range of matters from Kathleen Folbigg, to Israel and Palestine, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, the ACT inquiry into the criminal justice system, crime in western NSW and a range of other topical NSW political issues. The Legislative Council was packed for the occasion of Stephen's inaugural speech with visitors from far and wide - his very proud parents, siblings and their families, his partner and son as well as many other friends from Dubbo and the far west, friends Matthew Batsiua, a former member of the Nauru Parliament and former Foreign Affairs and Justice Minister for Nauru, and Luci Dabwido, the widow of Sprent Dabwido, a former President of Nauru. 

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