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In addressing the application of the “same question” rule to bills, House of Representatives Practice, at page 357, states:
In using his or her discretion in respect of a bill the Speaker would pay regard to the purpose of the rule, which is to prevent obstruction or unnecessary repetition, and the reason for the second bill.
Madam Speaker has examined both bills and concluded that each seeks to do substantially what the other proposes to do. As the Assembly has now had a substantive debate on the issues contained in both bills, Madam Speaker believes a second debate would be repetitive and thus offend the standing order.
Accordingly, Madam Speaker directs that Mr Barr’s Government Procurement (Notifiable Invoices) Amendment Bill 2015 be withdrawn from the notice paper.
Schools—nurses
MR DOSZPOT (Molonglo) (11.23): I move
That this Assembly:
(1) notes:
(a) that the Healthcare Access in Schools Programme was designed to trial a nurse telephone hotline across Canberra schools during Term 1 of the 2015 school year;
(b) that the trial has met with serious objections from both the ACT Education Union, who represent teachers in ACT public schools, and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, the ACT’s peak nursing body;
(c) that the Education Directorate ignored warnings from the ACT body of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, stating that it was dangerous to remove nurses from special schools; and
(d) that the issue of nurses in special schools, especially for The Woden School, has been a long standing issue for successive Ministers for Education and Health, with neither willing to take responsibility to ensure a permanent solution for special schools; and
(2) calls on the ACT Government to continue to:
(a) guarantee that all special schools will be quarantined from the Healthcare Access in Schools Programme; and
(b) reinstate permanent nurses to all ACT special schools, with at least two nurses at Black Mountain School and one nurse to The Woden School, so that students with complex medical needs are not put at risk.
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