Page 130 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 13 February 2019

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Apparently the minister and this government need a whole year to report on the results of the evaluation of the crossing supervisors program, yet she has literally just now spruiked the success of that program under her government’s leadership.

Once again, we have a “calls on” section in the amendment which allows the government to continue drip-feeding safety measures that clearly are working. She has admitted that. Two decades—that is what it will take before we finally have all ACT schools getting crossing guard supervisors. At this rate, my unborn child will have gone through her entire schooling and become a fully-fledged contributing adult before all our schools have essential safety measures.

I reject the self-serving platitudes that the minister has put up as this amendment. All it does is belittle her and continue to demonstrate her wilful ignorance about all matters affecting our schools. The Canberra Liberals will not be supporting her amendment. I commend my original motion to the Assembly.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Children and young people—services

MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (11.41): I move

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) research has increasingly called attention to the importance of what is called “middle childhood” or the “middle years” (variously defined as age 8 through age 12, age 14 or even age 15);

(b) middle childhood is an important period, marked by “rapid physical, emotional and social development, including the most intense period of brain development during a human lifetime”;

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