Page 412 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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The 2017 ACT road safety fund provided strategic funding for a safe system audit of the ACT road network based on assessment of the fatal and serious injury crashes over the last 10 years. The safe system approach focuses on safe speeds, safe roads and roadsides, safe vehicles as well as safe people and behaviours. Implementation of safe system components provides the means to meet our goal of vision zero—of no deaths or serious injuries on our roads.
The safe-system audit aims to determine which parts or part of the safe system failed to provide the necessary protection to prevent a crash from resulting in a death or serious injury. The report is due to me early this year and will inform the development of the next ACT road safety strategy and action plan.
Most of the deaths we see on our roads are preventable. We as a community should not have to endure the heartbreak associated with road trauma. To avoid it we must share the responsibility for road safety and all strive for vision zero.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Laws of the ACT
Discussion of matter of public importance
MADAM SPEAKER: I have received letters from Miss C Burch, Ms Cheyne, Ms Cody, Mr Coe, Mrs Dunne, Mrs Kikkert, Ms Le Couteur, Ms Lee, Mr Milligan, Ms Orr, Mr Parton, Mr Pettersson and Mr Wall proposing that matters of public importance be submitted to the Assembly. In accordance with standing order 79, I have determined that the matter proposed by Ms Cody be submitted to the Assembly, namely:
The importance of ACT laws which are constitutional, evidence based and human rights compliant.
MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (3.21): Thank you, Madam Speaker, for selecting me to make another MPI speech today. I feel like the luckiest member here. Today’s MPI, though, is not about luck. Today’s MPI is about facts. Whilst they may not carry such weight in every parliamentary building in Canberra this week, facts are most important to how this government operates. It is how we have stayed in government for so long and how we will continue to do so—by making government policy and laws that are constitutional, evidence based and human rights compliant. Those are always things, not just sometimes things.
Just because someone else has a cooler looking motorbike jacket does not mean they should have harsher laws applied to them, no matter how jealous it makes you. Or just because someone’s construction business was a failure does not mean we should make special laws and send the police out to harass others in the construction industry. Or just because someone owns a dozen houses, that does not mean that the rights of tenants should be curtailed or that that person should get tax breaks that are not available to others without such high personal wealth.
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