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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 9 Hansard (22 August) . . Page.. 3151 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

If you do not want to have a negative impact on children when measuring their fitness, you need to look at those questions. How is that going to be measured? How are you going to know whether or not that is delivered with this contract process? Your own paper on purchasing of services says, "Specifications of quality should be included in the tender specifications." They are not there. This is about government purchasing processes as much as it is about fitness.

You seemed to be implying that I do not care about fitness, and gave us all the data on fitness. I said I support any work that actually helps improve the health and fitness of children in our system-all children, not just those who can pay-and supports them in a way that takes into account the broader issues of fitness testing, the holistic approach to health. You have this happening in some of your schools now, through the health promoting schools framework. I do not see where you have related this to that holistic approach. Perhaps you have, but I have not seen it and you have not talked about it.

I think they are all the points I want to make. I ask members to support me in this. I am happy with Mr Berry's amendments, if they work to actually ensure that whatever contract agreement is presented reflects these broader issues. I do not think it is in any way out of order to have a process that is actually informed, either through a re-tendering process or through changing the actual agreement-which I said is not particularly consistent with your request for tender document anyway-by people who have expertise from the educational sector. I think particularly the user-pays component is very offensive to a lot of people.

Amendments agreed to.

Question put:

That Ms Tucker's motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted-


	 Ayes, 6    			Noes, 7

 Mr Berry  	Mr Stanhope  	Mrs Burke  	Mr Osborne
 Mr Corbell  	Ms Tucker  	Mr Cornwell  	Mr Rugendyke
 Mr Kaine  	Mr Wood  	Mr Hird  	Mr Stefaniak
     				Mr Humphries
Question so resolved in the negative.

Sitting suspended from 12.32 to 2.35 pm

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