Page 202 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 13 February 2019

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Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11

Noes 9

Mr Barr

Ms Le Couteur

Miss C Burch

Mr Milligan

Ms Berry

Ms Orr

Mr Coe

Mr Parton

Ms J Burch

Mr Pettersson

Mr Hanson

Mr Wall

Ms Cheyne

Mr Ramsay

Mrs Jones

Ms Cody

Mr Steel

Ms Lawder

Mr Gentleman

Ms Lee

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Adjournment

Motion (by Mr Gentleman) proposed:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Organ donation

MS CHEYNE (Ginninderra) (5.35): This morning marked Canberra’s largest community event that raises awareness about organ and tissue donation, transplantation and registration—the Gift of Life DonateLife Walk. I am yet to get final numbers but I would hazard a guess thousands of people were there, including schools, workplaces and even the Federation Guard—and the Governor-General.

The walk serves as a reminder to us all about how important organ and tissue donation is and how important it is that we have conversations with our loved ones about our wishes. It was a reminder to me especially that we all have to do more to support our families who engage with the organ donation process at any point: families who engage when their loved ones are a bit too healthy to be a recipient; families who engage when their loved ones are a bit too unwell to be a recipient; families whose loved ones receive organs and tissues; and families who have a loved one who becomes a donor who make that decision usually during the very difficult time of the sudden death of their loved one.

Today I met Mallie Taylor, a Gift of Life board member. Mallie and her husband, Matt, have the kind of love story you see and hear about in movies. Matt had some big health issues related to his lungs and his kidneys. For a long time he was just a bit too healthy to be eligible for an organ transplant. But in August 2016 after a terrible lung infection left Matt fragile and vulnerable, Matt and Mallie were told that Matt was too

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