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Financial Management Act—consolidated financial report
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Corrections, Minister for Industrial Relations and Workplace Safety, Minister for Planning and Land Management and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (10.38): I seek leave to table the financial papers pursuant to section 26 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
Leave not granted.
Adjournment
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Health—abortion rights
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Families and Community Services and Minister for Health) (10.38): I rise briefly to correct the record. During the debate on Ms Berry’s motion regarding access to abortion in the most recent sitting, I made the following statement:
Labor for Choice succeeded in their advocacy for federal Labor to commit, at the 2019 election, to ensuring that abortion would be available for free across Australia. Unfortunately, Labor was not elected in 2019 and the very welcome Albanese government has not repeated this commitment. So in an early letter to the incoming minister, Mark Butler, I called on the new commonwealth government to revisit and take action on this earlier commitment.
While my earlier letter to Minister Butler covered a range of issues of importance to the ACT, on review it did not, in fact, refer to this matter, and on reflection I believe I, instead, raised the issue with the minister verbally in my first meeting with him on 28 June 2022.
I have now written to Minister Butler advising him of the ACT government’s budget commitment and seeking consideration of commonwealth action to ensure that women and pregnancy capable people across Australia have access to safe, legal and free abortion services.
I do apologise to the Assembly for the error, and I hope this statement serves to correct the record appropriately.
Financial Management Act—consolidated financial report
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Corrections, Minister for Industrial Relations and Workplace Safety, Minister for
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