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Unless we have appropriate coaches and appropriate training so that the warm-up process and the warming-down process are correct, with the proper physical activity, the proper training, plus immediate first-aid on hand, we are putting our teachers into a situation where they are at risk. The risk of litigation is high; the expectation from parents is high. We have not seen anything that guarantees the level of resources teachers must have if they are going to markedly increase the level of sport particularly, but physical education as well. You can do enormous damage in a gym if you do not know what you are doing, particularly if an accident happens and a person is not trained expertly in how to deal with a spine injury or any other injury that can happen. It is not an issue that should be taken lightly and it is an issue for which we must see guarantees.

They are the sorts of things that have been mentioned since the Minister, quite rightly, raised the issue. I do not think anyone is complaining about improving the capacity for students to be engaged in physical activity in school. The Opposition is not opposed to increasing and improving that capacity. What I am concerned about is that not enough attention is being paid to the very serious issues that are being raised across the board. In particular, I thought the ACT Council of P and C Associations offered a very sensible process to be gone through at this point, which would lay to rest the sorts of concerns I have and would give us a more comprehensive and thorough basis on which to look at whether 100 minutes a week of PE and 100 minutes a week of sport is the answer to the problem.

Maybe - let us be personal about this - some good nutrition classes when I was in Year 11 would have done me a lot more good than the compulsory sport I took part in. We know that girls have a problem with diet. We know that girls have a problem with self-esteem. Having me run around an oval did not solve my problem at that point. What I know now about diet and nutrition is quite different from what I knew as an embarrassed, fat Year 11 girl, let us be frank. It is those sorts of issues that we have not begun to look at in any detail.

The P and C Council is calling for a more comprehensive analysis of the factors contributing to the problem, which will identify the problem, with that review to be undertaken with all the interested parties, instead of all of us playing catch-up games. May I say that I have never received a bit of paper from the Minister in regard to these initiatives. I have never received correspondence on it or any briefing. It is a catch-up game from every different group that is working in it, whereby gradually the sector gets together and finds out what is going on. I do not think that is good enough. There is a lot at stake that is of great importance to every student who goes through our schools, and I call on this Assembly to support the call by the Council of P and C Associations. They are not calling for the measures to be stopped. They are not calling for a decrease in sport. I know that they are wholeheartedly behind improving and increasing the level of physical activity and the level of attention to personal health, fitness, recreation and involvement in sport.

We need a comprehensive analysis of the ACT situation, of what ACT schools want, of what ACT parents want, and of what ACT students want. We want to know why students are opting out - whether they are thoroughly engaged in other activities and see their opportunity at school to do other subjects that they find more interesting and do not

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