Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that in a world of great wealth, hundreds of millions of people experience terrible poverty and that:

(a)

more than 800 million people are malnourished;

(b)

30,000 children die every day from preventable disease;

(c)

500 women die every day from treatable pregnancy-related complications; and

(d)

more than one billion people live on less than one dollar per day; and further,

(2)

believes that Australia should make a greater commitment to the achievable targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals in an attempt to eliminate world poverty. (Notice given 20 June 2007.)

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