Page 714 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 19 March 2019
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I ask every member of the Canberra community to look critically at their assumptions about gender and appropriate gendered behaviours and challenge them to change their own behaviours and their expectations of others’ behaviours. As a community we have a real opportunity to change the experience of women and girls. I present a copy of the statement:
International Women’s Day 2019—Ministerial Statement.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
MRS JONES (Murrumbidgee) (11.48): I join the Minister for Women and all my colleagues in this place to note our celebration of International Women’s Day with and for women across the world. We achieved the first majority women parliament in Australia, in December 2017. Tasmania followed in March 2018. We have the first majority women Liberal Party party room in the country. This has been achieved through merit, through grit, through the determination of women and with the absolute support of all in the Canberra Liberals.
I hosted a morning tea on Wednesday, 6 March to celebrate International Women’s Day and was honoured to have so many fantastic women there, including community and cultural leaders and some great women from the Canberra Liberals: the Hon Margaret Reid, the first female President of the Senate; Mina Zaki, our candidate for the seat of Canberra; and all my Canberra Liberals colleagues.
I commend the minister for her commitment and work in this portfolio. I believe this parliament continues to demonstrate what is possible with effort. I also stand with the minister to say we are not done yet. She said in her statement that the intention is that women can participate fully in the way they want to. I absolutely agree, and in the ACT we are able to achieve these reasonable aspirations. But until we achieve them everywhere we still have work to do.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Mission to Indonesia
Ministerial statement
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (11.50): I am pleased to report to the Assembly today on a mission I led to Indonesia in February. This was a very focused mission, both in time and scope, but an important one, coming just ahead of the signing of a new and wide-ranging economic partnership agreement between Australia and Indonesia in early March.
There are many benefits from a strong reciprocal relationship between Australia and Indonesia and between Canberra and Jakarta as the respective national capitals. This
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