Page 4847 - Week 16 - Thursday, 29 November 1990
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Mr Connolly: What about AIDS? It was not in your Bill.
Mr Moore: It was in your Bill and was then pulled out again.
Mr Collaery: No, no such thing.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members!
MR BERRY: It is a prickly subject for the Government, and I understand that. I understand why it is so concerned about it, because it has been proved wanting in this matter. Those activists in the community who work to assist people living with AIDS are, of course, concerned that this legislation on discrimination that has been tabled today has gone no further than a tabling document. Now, if the Government's performance on delivery of legislation is - - -
Mr Collaery: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Berry stood to talk about a ministerial statement on World AIDS Day by my colleague Mr Humphries. Instead he is addressing the Bill.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Yes, I agree, Mr Collaery. Mr Berry, please be relevant.
Mr Moore: The two are connected, inextricably connected.
MR BERRY: Of course they are connected, lunatic. I withdraw that.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Withdraw that, please, Mr Berry!
MR BERRY: I withdrew it.
Mr Jensen: He should not have said it in the first place.
MR BERRY: I should not have said that in the first place. There were a lot of other things that I should have said. It is an attractive target.
Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is that this is a truly important day for the ACT and, of course, for the rest of the world. World AIDS Day is a welcome focus because it draws the attention of the people of the ACT and of the world to the issue of AIDS and how we might prevent the spread of it and, of course, assist those people who are living with it. I think that any focus that helps us in those two respects will be a good one, and I have to say that I welcome the Government's support for this focus and I congratulate the Minister for the efforts that he has put into assisting with the focus on this dreaded ailment.
The focus on women, of course, is an important one. Far too often we see women left behind in consideration of these matters. Often we see that women have to wait till
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