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contributions to the Share the Dignity Campaign. Period Poverty is an issue that they feel strongly about. I teach Legal Studies and can see the potential for the Period Products (Access) Bill to not only be a great case study, but to also be a way of encouraging girls to engage with our political system … Hopefully [the survey] will still be open into February next year, enabling us to encourage students to complete it. I will continue to follow this with interest.

I am quite happy to advise that we have put out a survey to start to capture some of the reasons why people feel stigma in talking about periods, and it is open for everyone to do. Another commenter wrote:

I would like to say thank you for alerting me to this bill. In Australia, I was not aware that this was an issue with social benefits being available to those who are in poverty. In India, Period time for women has connotations and the conditions you describe are worse there than here.

There have, of course, been many other nuanced suggestions and also shorter messages in support of the bill, all of which I am sincerely grateful for. I plan to continue consulting on the draft bill until the end of March. I will review all the feedback and make any necessary revisions, with the intention of progressing the bill further by the middle of the year. I look forward to keeping the Assembly updated as this work continues.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

The Assembly adjourned at 4.16 pm.

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