Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Youth and Sport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to present a Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to higher education, and for related purposes. (Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities, and Other Measures) Bill 2009)

Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes the Federal Government’s ‘Saving Lives in the Water’ measure announced in the 2008-09 Budget and the priorities identified in the Australian Water Safety Strategy 2008-2011;

(2)

calls on the Federal Government to:

(a)

create and implement an annual National Drowning and Prevention, Awareness and Memorial Day;

(b)

provide assistance to schools and other education facilities so they are fully resourced to provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid training, and better able to educate students on water safety;

(c)

establish a national code for pool compliance, legislating that all pool owners be trained, certified and up to date in CPR as part of their pool compliance;

(d)

devise and support programs to teach water safety to children and toddlers; and

(e)

implement a national rural and regional swimming program to better equip parents, carers and children in isolated communities.

Chris Hayes (Werriwa, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

focuses on the pressing need for organ and tissue donation for transplantation as we approach Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week (AODAW) between 21 and 28 February 2009;

(2)

recognises that there are almost 2000 people in Australia on organ transplant waiting lists at any given time;

(3)

notes that recent figures available on the international comparison of donor rates indicate that Australia has one of the lowest donation rates, yet surveys indicate that there is widespread support, showing 90 per cent of Australians are in favour of organ donation;

(4)

acknowledges and thanks the efforts of the States and Territories across the nation in coordinating activities and sharing best practice to increase donation rates nationally;

(5)

congratulates the organisers of AODAW in promoting the registration of consent on the Australian Organ Donor Register;

(6)

supports the efforts of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health and Ageing to increase the rate of organ donations in Australia; and

(7)

encourages members to actively encourage Australians in their electorates to register to become organ donors.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that the report of the Beale review of Australia’s quarantine and biosecurity arrangements, One Biosecurity: a working partnership, includes recommendation 59 relating to the importation, subject to strict conditions, of the live foot and mouth virus for use in research;

(2)

recognises that the risks associated with such importation far outweigh the possible benefits of research; and

(3)

calls on the:

(a)

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to unequivocally and indefinitely reject recommendation 59 of the ‘Beale Report’; and

(b)

Government to indefinitely and wholly prohibit the introduction of any live culture sample of foot and mouth disease for research or any other purpose.