Page 2312 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 29 August 2007

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available for nurses on wards, we have a problem. My reference to a Third World hospital or Third World health system was because we should expect better here. That was my point.

I will continue to watch and monitor. I will continue to make public where I have to, where I feel the need to. I will not back away or resile from what I have done. I stand by everything I have said in an effort to support the nurses on the front line and our health professionals right across the health system. I ask the house to support my motion. I will finish on that note. I just ask that members of this house look at what I have said—look at it seriously and support my motion today.

Question put:

That Ms Gallagher’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Road safety and driver education

Motion (by Mr Gentleman) agreed to:

That the moving of the motion be postponed till the next day of sitting.

Waste management

DR FOSKEY (Molonglo) (11.45): I move:

That this Assembly calls on the ACT Government to:

(1) re-commit to the target and timeline of the No Waste by 2010 strategy;

(2) develop targets by the end of 2007 to close recycling loops, and reduce the net production of waste; and

(3) adopt measures to achieve the No Waste by 2010 target that include:

(a) siting recycling bins beside all landfill rubbish bins in town centres;

(b) a scheme for the safe disposal of fluorescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs;

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