Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to present a bill for an act to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol Ratification) Bill 2007).

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

to move:

That the House:

(1)

recognises that the Federal Government needs to invest in education and improving the skills of Australians to ensure that all students have the opportunity to complete Year 12 at high school and ensure that they have appropriate entry-level training for their chosen trade or vocation; and

(2)

condemns the failure of the Government to invest in education and skills for Australia’s future, particularly when the commodity boom moderates.

Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Community Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

26 May marks the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, which documented the systematic removal of up to 100,000 indigenous children from their families between 1910 and the 1970s, and its serous, and ongoing impact;

(b)

the Howard Government’s decision to not apologise for this systematic removal has compounded the distress of survivors and held us all back from achieving genuine reconciliation;

(c)

research subsequent to the report has shown that indigenous children who were removed:

(i)

were more likely to have been victims of family violence (38 per cent compared to the figure of 23 per cent for the broader indigenous population);

(ii)

were 2.3 times more likely to experience clinical depression and behavioural difficulties;

(iii)

had double the rate of both alcohol and other drug use than other indigenous children; and

(iv)

were more likely to end up in jail; and

(d)

a recent Urbis Keys Young report commissioned by the Government described the Government’s response to date as “poorly coordinated and insufficiently targeted” and also revealed that some Bringing Them Home and Link-Up counsellors 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; and

(2)

calls on the Government to:

(a)

apologise for past policies and practices that resulted in the systematic and forced removal of indigenous children from their families; and

(b)

immediately implement measures to address the continuing adverse social, physical and mental health outcomes impacting on the Stolen Generation and subsequent generations.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

urges the Government to provide funding for:

(a)

national epidemiological studies of all eating disorders to determine: (i) their prevalence, incidence and correlates, thereby enabling public health officials and professionals’ organisations to coordinate the provision of strategies for prevention, treatment, training and research; and (ii) their natural history, morbidity and mortality;

(b)

a national economic analysis of all eating disorders to determine the overall economic cost to Australian society, including lost and reduced productivity, missed working days, treatment, medication, hospitalisation and lives lost, in order to provide the cost/ benefits of prevention programs, early detection and robust treatment;

(c)

research into current treatment, to ensure the utilisation of best-practice and for the dissemination of research outcomes among medical practitioners;

(d)

increased services for the treatment of eating disorders, including the creation of specific eating disorder centres outside hospital settings for both in-patients and day patients, to provide specialist medical support, counselling and mental health services based on evaluated best-practice;

(e)

the inclusion of the study of eating disorders in university medical courses, to ensure that all medical professionals receive comprehensive training in identification and treatment;

(f)

the development of evidence-based prevention programs in school, community and home settings to reduce the risk factors associated with eating disorders and to promote healthy body image and positive self-esteem; and

(2)

calls on the Government, together with State Governments:

(a)

to convene a national forum on body image, which draws together the media, fashion and advertising industries, medical professionals and school and community groups and acts to develop strategies for addressing the body image crisis; and

(b)

to develop a media code of conduct on body image in consultation with the media, that will, among other things, require the classification of ‘pro-ana’ websites so that they can be banned or filtered out.