Page 3502 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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fun held in Glebe Park. That was also an extremely interesting activity, organised with a focus on children and aiming to heighten the awareness of children concerning issues of this kind. There were a number of activities, including a play put on by Phillip College, "Launching the Gurgleburger".
Mr Kaine: What?
MR HUMPHRIES: It was called a gurgleburger, Chief Minister. Unfortunately, I arrived too late to sample the gurgleburger. There was also the judging of a food competition organised among primary and secondary schools in the ACT, the objective of which was for children to devise healthy recipes.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Humphries! Mrs Nolan, Ms Maher, order! I have just been in my chambers and it is almost impossible to hear Mr Humphries speaking over the prattle coming from that corner. Dr Kinloch was also involved. I pity the Hansard people trying to record the speeches in this house. If you must speak, please press the buttons to stop the recording of your voices when you are not entitled to speak.
Mr Kaine: It might be better than the original quite often, Mr Speaker.
MR HUMPHRIES: Not in this case, Chief Minister. Mr Speaker, the entrants to that competition develop healthy food and drinks suitable for use in school canteens, in particular. They submit their recipes to the competition organisers and they have them judged. I sampled some of those entries and they were most delicious and, I am sure, very healthy. There is an important side to all this, of course. It does raise the focus on the profile of nutrition issues in community activities. They are important.
Unfortunately, these days, with heavy advertising by certain companies there is a great temptation for children when going to buy food at school canteens to consume very unhealthy food, and the emphasis that organisations such as the Australian Nutrition Foundation place on giving kids proper choices, good choices, and giving them the information to back up these choices I think is very important and very laudable and should be backed up by this Assembly. We do, I am sure, share in this place the goal of encouraging students to develop their own motivation to consume healthy food, particularly healthy fast food, and I am advised that there are such things.
I want to commend, as I said, the organisers of Nutrition Time 1990, and wish them well for activities in future years.
Mr Berry: Who won? Tell us who won.
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