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Akash Sama­roo

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is dis­ap­point­ed with the Gov­ern­ment bench for re­fus­ing to en­ter­tain amend­ments put for­ward dur­ing the de­bate on the Chil­dren Life Fund Amend­ment Bill 2025.

In a rare oc­cur­rence on Mon­day, Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark cast three tie-break­ing votes in favour of the Gov­ern­ment, en­abling the Sen­ate to pass the leg­is­la­tion with amend­ments - some­thing Al-Rawi yes­ter­day claimed he had not seen over the course of his po­lit­i­cal ca­reer.