A new Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books & Writers campaign champions reading for pleasure, while the benefits of the creative sector are highlighted. MPs debate the Creative Australia Amendment (Implementation of Revive) Bill, and the Deputy Chief Minister of NSW calls for increased funding to ensure that all Australians have access to quality literary services.
In the House of Lords, the Assisted Dying Bill receives its Second Reading, and Lisa Nandy appears before the Culture Committee and Lord Hermer before the Constitution Committee. The Chancellor and Defence Secretary are among the Ministers facing questions in the Commons, as MPs also discuss Scottish devolution, the Windsor Framework and Black History Month. Peers will examine bills on planning, border security and children’s wellbeing, and debate an Order facilitating earlier prisoner deportations. In Strasbourg, MEPs back the EU’s’smart, fair, green and inclusive’ agenda, and approve changes to the carbon border adjustment mechanism, as well as a proposal on improving EU circularity rules to address vehicle lifecycle issues such as end-of-life treatment. Parliament also expresses grave alarm at Gaza’s ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis, and urges the Ukrainian government to keep up its pace of reforms.
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