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The ACT Health Promotion Fund, set up by the Labor Party and, to give credit where credit is due, supported by the Liberals when they were in office - but it was set up by the Labor Party - has also provided $220,000 over the last two financial years for projects, including a grant of $95,000 to the National Heart Foundation for a two-year education project which will target schools, restaurants, the workplace and the community. This Government is committed to health and to the concept that good health relates not just to the provision of hospital services but to the whole of our environment.
I am pleased to see that the focus of many programs is on young people and educating the community before unhealthy lifestyles develop. The Labor Government is committed to providing the highest possible standard of accessible and affordable health care to the people of the ACT, in contrast to the Liberals.
Madam Speaker, by the end of these three years Labor guarantees a better, more efficient ACT health system. Over the next three years, Madam Speaker, Labor will consolidate its performance since taking office in June. This is all bad news for the Liberals, Madam Speaker; but I am very pleased to make those important announcements about the health system in the ACT, and it is most appropriate that they be recorded in this Assembly on World Health Day.
Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, on the basis that the Minister is going to move that his paper be noted, I will move that the debate be adjourned and we will take up his frivolous claims to achievement at some other time.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, he has not moved that it be noted.
Mr Kaine: I assumed that he was going to, Madam Speaker.
MR BERRY: Do you want to debate it?
Mr Kaine: Yes.
MR BERRY: Okay; I present the following paper:
World Health Day - An ACT Perspective - Ministerial statement, 7 April 1992.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Casino Project
MR LAMONT: Madam Speaker - - -
Mr Kaine: This is his maiden speech, is it, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: No.
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