Page 1661 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 15 May 2019
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Sexual Health Centre at Canberra Hospital, requiring an investment in new infrastructure. This investment will see the centre relocated and expanded to meet contemporary health design and clinical safety requirements, as well as to meet changing and increasing demands for the service.
Additionally, Canberra Health Services is focused on continued improvement and innovation in the delivery of their clinical services. To this end, work is underway improve the way in which Canberra Sexual Health Centre provides out-reach services, including the use of our community health centres and Walk-in Centres (WiCs) to deliver services closer to home and provide consumer advice and education. Most recently, this has included the promotion of access to chlamydia screening for young people at WiCs.
In addition to these new approaches, the Canberra Sexual Health Centre has a significant program of out-reach and in-reach services delivered in partnership with community organisations and other ACT Government partners, including the Aids Action Council, Karralika Programs Inc, Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT, Hepatitis ACT, University of Canberra Medical Centre, the Education Directorate, the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge the ongoing and hard work of clinicians and staff from the Canberra Sexual Health Centre and extend my thanks to petitioners for bringing this important matter to my attention.
Thank you for raising this matter. I trust this information is of assistance.
Motion to take note of petitions and response
MADAM SPEAKER: Pursuant to standing order 98A, I propose the question:
That the petitions and response so lodged be noted.
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (10.03): I have presented petitions signed by 1,180 Canberra residents who want this Assembly to understand how frustrated they are with recent changes to the bus network in the Belconnen area. We often hear the Minister for Transport assure us that her new transport network is better for almost everyone. The more than 1,000 people who have signed these petitions disagree, and I am pleased to make sure their voices can also be heard.
Each person who signed this petition has a story. I have not heard all of them but I have heard many. Here is an account from one Aranda resident, in her own words:
I arrived at my nearest bus stop at around 8.20 am to catch a bus due at 8.28 am. At 8.35 am, the bus went past—it was full. I later found out that it had been full since Cook and that no one had been able to get on at any of the stops in Aranda. The next bus was due at 8.50 am. It arrived at 9.05.
Another resident related the following to me, also in his own words:
Everyone at the stop let me know that the bus had already gone past, completely full. One woman was ringing her husband to come get her with his car. “I don’t
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