Brian attended Mardigrass in Nimbin this year and came back charged. Thousands of patients, advocates and researchers, decades of collective fight, still laughing, still organising. That energy came straight back into the Chamber with us.

The sitting fortnight that followed was two of the most intense weeks we have had in WA. Brian pressed the Road Safety Minister four times on the Medicinal Cannabis and Safe Driving Working Group report, which has now been “under consideration” for four months while patients lose their licences for medicine their GP prescribed. The Government’s strategy is clear: wait it out and hope the question stops being asked. We will not stop asking.

Brian also moved a motion to reform Question Time itself after a fortnight of watching Cook’s Ministers answer the question they wished they had been asked rather than the one on notice. The motion failed, predictably, but the diagnosis is now on the public record. Question Time is still broken.

On top of that, our team submitted over 100 questions on notice in one day about the WA State Budget, covering agencies from police to agriculture to the DPP. The Government would prefer the detail stay buried. We are dragging the truth out into the open.

Further, Brian continued pushing for WA biofuels including hemp as a genuine alternative to expensive imported fuel, connecting the cannabis/hemp economy directly to energy sovereignty which Australia desperately needs.