Page 3362 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 September 1994
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Ginninderra Wetlands
MR STEFANIAK (5.30): Madam Speaker, I believe in giving credit where credit is due. That often does not happen in this house. I neglected to do this in the debate. On behalf of the Opposition, I would like to congratulate Ellnor Grassby for something she did, which she alluded to in her speech. Maurice Griffin-Warwicke, from the Belconnen Community Council, came to Ellnor with a very sensible proposal in relation to developing the Ginninderra wetlands. Ellnor did a lot of work to get that up and running, and we had, as she said, a committee meeting at the Belconnen Community Centre last week. A committee is up and running. It is a project that will cost very little money and has immense potential, not only for tourism but also in terms of just getting the community involved, especially getting kids involved. I look forward to working with Ellnor and the Belconnen Community Council on that. So, I would like to congratulate Ellnor for her work to date on that.
Mr John Lomax : Passive Smoking
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business) (5.31), in reply: I would just like to echo the words of support for the Raiders. I do not know how the appeal that was lodged by John Lomax will go, but I wish him well. It is to be heard tomorrow. Our best wishes go to John Lomax. I think it was a most unfortunate turn of events, which ended up seeing him turfed off the paddock. Of course, it would have been a big personal blow for him. He is a very tough young footballer who plays his heart out on the football field, but one who has always been fair, on my observation of any of the games that he has been involved in. So, good luck, John.
There is one other matter I would like to raise during this debate. Yesterday Mr Moore said, in the course of debate about epidemiological studies, that he would only rely on epidemiological evidence that we have dangers of passive smoking, and there was some agreement between him and Mrs Carnell later on in relation to epidemiological studies of non-smoking women living with smokers. Mr Moore said that if we had any evidence we should provide it and that would be great. I produce evidence - and I will table it, Madam Speaker - which shows that the excess risk of lung cancer among women ever exposed to environmental tobacco smoke during adult life was: In the household 24 per cent; in the workplace, 39 per cent; and in social settings, 50 per cent. It comes from the JAMA, which is the Journal of the Medical Association. It was an extensive environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in non-smoking women study conducted in the United States. I seek leave to table that.
Leave granted.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 5.32 pm until Tuesday, 11 October 1994, at 2.30 pm
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