Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the pledge, first made by Australia in the year 2000, to spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion are currently subjected,

(ii)

that with only five years until the international goals to address extreme poverty are due, there is now an urgent need to recommit ourselves to this task, and

(iii)

that our actions of the past 20 years have already succeeded in halving rates of extreme poverty, and within a generation we can and will make poverty history; and

(b)

welcomes the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign to ensure that we do our fair share to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals.

Question agreed to.