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Personal explanations
MS LEE (Kurrajong) (3.05): Under standing order 46, I wish to make a personal explanation.
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lee.
MS LEE: Yesterday during the debate on my motion on safer school zones, I used the words “reduced speed zones around 10,000 New South Wales schools”. I wanted to clarify, just in case there was a misunderstanding, that that is 10,000 school zones, not 10,000 New South Wales schools.
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (3.05): Under standing order 46, I also wish to make a personal explanation.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Kikkert.
MRS KIKKERT: As part of the explanation, I seek leave to table a document.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is leave granted?
Mr Rattenbury: Madam Speaker, can we have an explanation of what the document is, please?
MRS KIKKERT: The document is a motion that I tabled yesterday, with footnotes. I will explain.
Leave granted.
MRS KIKKERT: Thank you. I present the following paper:
Middle childhood—Services and programs—Copy of notice of motion with annotated references—Mrs Kikkert.
Yesterday, in addressing the motion that I moved relating to children in the middle years, Minister Stephen-Smith stated:
… some of the factual information presented has been taken out of context, and some of it does not reflect Australian data.
I have tabled a fully referenced copy of my motion from yesterday, which shows that, in every instance, quotes, statistics and other data have all come from Australian sources. Moreover, a quick look over these references will show that, in all cases but one, the information taken from these Australian research projects, studies and submissions originate from Australian-based research conducted within the Australian population. The sole exception was one statement regarding the emergence of mental health issues in middle childhood, which was taken from an American dataset that the
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