Steve Georganas (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

acknowledges that prostate cancer continues to be a major disease amongst Australian men, with approximately 12,000 men diagnosed with, and 2,700 men dying from, prostate cancer annually;

(2)

recognises the difficulty of men identifying prostate cancer symptoms and reluctance of many men to instigate medical consultations;

(3)

supports the three-year ‘Be A Man’ campaign, due to conclude early in 2008; and

(4)

calls on the Federal Government to explore ways of providing funding in support of optimal treatment.

Peter Andren (Calare, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

26 May 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report;

(b)

most of the recommendations of the report have been ignored by successive Coalition governments;

(c)

medical evidence shows that many indigenous children who were removed from their families have been severely affected, with that effect carrying on to following generations;

(d)

the Urbis Keys Young report established by the Government has revealed that some Bringing Them Home and Link-Up counselors are struggling to cope with up to more than 80 clients each, compared with the average caseload of 25 for a mental health worker in mainstream services;

(e)

the same report described the Government response to the needs of the Stolen Generation as “poorly coordinated and insufficiently targeted”; and

(f)

the Canadian Government has implemented measures totaling $4.8 billion dollars to address its equivalent of the Stolen Generations, with 50 per cent for compensation for those indigenous children held in institutions over many years, as well as an Aboriginal Healing Foundation and Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and

(2)   calls on the current and any future Government to immediately implement measures to address the continuing adverse social, physical and mental health outcomes impacting on the Stolen Generation and subsequent generations.

Sophie Mirabella (Indi, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

Palestinian terrorists infiltrated Israel’s sovereign border from the Gaza Strip on 25 June 2006, attacked an army post inside Israel’s sovereign territory and kidnapped Corporal Gilad Shalit into Gaza;

(b)

on 12 July 2006—in a similar aggressive cross-border attack from southern Lebanon—Hizbollah terrorists infiltrated sovereign Israeli territory and kidnapped Israeli Defence Force Reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev;

(c)

there is no territorial dispute between Israel and Lebanon, since Israel withdrew from her security zone in May 2000, under the supervision of the United Nations; and

(d)

these young soldiers were serving their active duty within Israel’s borders and now, for more than nine months, have been denied their basic human rights; and

(2)

urges the Government to exert pressure on the terrorist organisations, their supporters and financial backers in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, so that the missing soldiers are returned unharmed to their families and the country of Israel.