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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-02-07T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Motions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Rental Accommodation</name>
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        <heading>Rental Accommodation</heading>
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      <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000793">Orders of the Day, Private Business, No. 167: Hon. R.A. Simms to move:</text>
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        <inserted>That this council—</inserted>
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      <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000795">
        <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Notes that as at 8 June 2022, RSPCA Lonsdale has reported almost 100 dogs up for adoption as a result of pet owners not being able to find suitable rental accommodation with their pets.</inserted>
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        <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Recognises that landlords have greater rights than renters when it comes to pet ownership.</inserted>
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      <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000797">
        <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Calls on the Malinauskas government to undertake urgent reform of the Residential Tenancies Act to:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;improve renters' rights with regard to pet ownership;</inserted>
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      <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000799">
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;address the housing affordability crisis; and</inserted>
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      <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000800">
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;address the housing vacancy crisis.</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2024-02-07T17:47:19+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (17:47):</by>  I move:</text>
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          <inserted>That this order of the day be discharged.</inserted>
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        <text id="202402078fabb522fbb843edb0000803">Motion carried; order of the day discharged.</text>
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