Page 3361 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 19 October 2022

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Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 14		Noes 7
Mr Barr	Dr Paterson		Mr Cain
Mr Braddock	Mr Pettersson		Ms Castley
Ms Burch	Mr Rattenbury		Mr Cocks
Ms Cheyne	Mr Steel		Mrs Kikkert
Ms Clay	Ms Stephen-Smith		Ms Lawder
Ms Davidson	Ms Vassarotti		Mr Milligan
Mr Davis			Mr Parton
Ms Orr

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Climate change—public health

MR DAVIS (Brindabella) (5.23): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) fair, equitable and universal access to quality public health services is a human right;

(b) access to primary and preventive public health care is vital and people should be encouraged to interact with public health services before they become unwell;

(d) climate change impacts public health in a variety of ways, such as exposing people to increased temperatures, heatwaves, and smoke from bushfires, and increasing the spread of disease;

(e) people on low incomes or experiencing economic disadvantage are the most vulnerable to health complications related to climate change; and

(f) as a nation leader in the fight against climate change, the ACT Government should have a strategic, health-based response to climate change including a plan for the health sector to reduce its own contribution to climate change;

(2) further notes that:

(a) in May 2019, the ACT Legislative Assembly declared a climate emergency;

(b) on 11 November 2021, the Minister for Health and the Minister for the Environment released the ACT Government’s Bushfire Smoke and Air Quality Strategy to establish a whole of government approach to

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