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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3348 ..

Debate resumed from 4 September 1997, on motion by Mr Kaine:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

(Quorum formed)

Debate resumed from 15 May 1997, on motion by Mrs Carnell:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Public Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 1997?

Mr Berry: No, I do not think so.

MR MOORE (5.27): Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise to support this piece of legislation. When the Chief Minister tabled the legislation earlier this year, I made a public statement that, although I thought it was good legislation, it was inadequate in that it did not go far enough. It managed to look after public health in the old way that we looked after public health, dealing with sanitary conditions and control of disease; but it failed to take into account the new form of public health and health promotion, as identified particularly in the Ottawa Charter of 1986.

Having made a public statement to that effect, which was published, I had a call from Professor Douglas of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, who said, "I am glad you have learnt something from all the time you spent studying here. Probably what we ought to do is organise a round table discussion and see what we can do to improve this legislation. Clearly, it is legislation that is important to the ACT". I saw it as legislation that was already at the forefront of Australian legislation but that needed some modification.

Professor Douglas and his people over there were invited to that meeting, and I invited other people, including members of this Assembly. I know Ms Tucker was not able to be at the first meeting herself but sent somebody along; unfortunately, the Labor Party members were not able to be there. People of great expertise from all around Australia

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