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Thursday, 22 March 1990
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MR SPEAKER (Mr Prowse) took the chair at 10.30 am and read the prayer.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE - RESTRUCTURING THE COMMITTEE SYSTEM
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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Stefaniak): I call Mr Prowse.
MR PROWSE: I present the report of the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures on the restructuring of Assembly committees, and I move:
That the report be noted.
Mr Whalan: Where is the report? I think, Mr Deputy Speaker, before we consider - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Whalan, I take your point. The report can be distributed.
Debate (on motion by Mr Jensen) adjourned.
SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE - NEEDS OF THE AGEING
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Debate resumed from 19 October 1989, on motion by Mr Wood:
That the recommendations be agreed to.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (10.33): I table the following report:
Blueprint for the Ageing - Standing Committee on Social Policy - Needs of the Ageing - Report - Government response.
The first inquiry of the Assembly's Standing Committee on Social Policy was conducted into the needs of the ageing. As Leader of the Opposition I initiated that inquiry because I believed that special attention needed to be focused on the needs of our increasingly ageing population. Elderly people constitute a major political and economic force with significant needs and aspirations, and have been ignored for much too long.
The Alliance Government recognises the importance of this group and will develop and implement policies which promote
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