Page 1160 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 2 April 2019
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of services, Transport Canberra, Canberra Metro, ACT Policing and the ACT Emergency Services Agency have been sharing rail-ready safety and preparedness around light rail messages right across the community and through a range of mediums to ensure community awareness. We are also planning for celebratory events when services commence.
MR PETTERSSON: Minister, what celebratory and launch activities are planned to mark the occasion?
MS FITZHARRIS: The first stage of Canberra’s light rail network is a significant milestone for our city, and plans are in place to celebrate this achievement. Canberrans have seen the progress of light rail for many years now, from planning to now seeing light rail vehicles running up and down the route as they complete their final tests. I know that many people are eagerly waiting to get on board.
Large numbers of people are expected to want to try light rail when it starts on 20 April. We are preparing for events in Civic and Gungahlin that will entertain and give people a safe area to wait to board light rail before they can go for their first ride. I am pleased to remind members that there will be no charge to use light rail on the opening weekend, and the Canberra community are all invited. There is also an opportunity for some members of the community to be the first to ride light rail, through the community preview loop on 18 April. There will be 150 double passes for this event, and there is still time to enter the ballot, until tomorrow, at transport.act.gov.au.
MS CODY: Minister, what opportunities are there for the community to be involved in the celebrations?
MS FITZHARRIS: There are lots of ways the community can be involved in this celebration. I really look forward to many members of the community coming along to join us on the first light rail ride on 20 April. At the events the community will find opportunities to get involved in kids activities, enjoy some entertainment and, importantly, support local businesses. Canberrans will be encouraged to leave their car at home or to take advantage of free buses that will run across the network to get people to and from the city and Gungahlin interchanges. Of course the community can also enter the ballot that I mentioned in my previous answer. Many thousands of Canberrans have already registered their interest. We are very much looking forward to welcoming them on light rail, whether that is on the 18th, the 20th or beyond.
Canberra Health Services—consent for procedures
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. On 21 March this year, you took a question about whether a vaginal examination had been performed without consent on a woman at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children. In your answer, you stated that Canberra Health Services had advised that this incident did not occur. On 30 March 2019, you were sent an email from an anonymous source with a copy of a complaint made by a woman on 7 February about having a senior doctor perform a vaginal examination without her consent. Minister,
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