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further disadvantage them by reducing the opportunities for higher level training of both nursing and medical staff is unforgivable. I refer, in particular, to those sorts of opportunities which prevail within the public health system because it is the training of those staff which is important for the delivery of obstetric services in the ACT in the future which should be of most concern to the people opposite.

If there is a creation of obstetric beds in the private sector, it will drain the public sector. That is a fact of life and Mr Humphries will not deny it. I think he understands and knows that it is in accordance with Liberal philosophy that the range of options will narrow and the quality of care will suffer for public patients if we allow that to follow through.

Mr Speaker, the amendment is to be opposed because all it sets out to do is pat the Government on the back for a deplorable action and for an action which is not supported generally in the community. The motion should be supported because it means a strong, accessible and viable public hospital system which caters for obstetric services for women who cannot afford private insurance - and that is what Labor is about, providing for those people.

Question put:

That the amendment (Mr Humphries') be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11  NOES, 5

Mr Collaery Mr Berry
Mr Duby Ms Follett
Mr Humphries Mrs Grassby
Mr Jensen Mr Moore
Mr Kaine Mr Wood
Dr Kinloch 
Ms Maher
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Stevenson

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

FILM CENSORSHIP BOARD GUIDELINES

MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (12.09): I move:

That this Assembly calls upon the Commonwealth Government to review the Film Censorship Board

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