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noticed, but there is apparently a climate emergency—and you want to get more people out of their cars into fully electric services in the quickest possible time, that is one way to do it. I am not necessarily saying that that is our position, but I am putting it forward as an option—because this is a place of ideas. This is a place of ideas, and I am just putting it forward as an option, in that you could do that.

I think that the most important thing about this motion, in all seriousness—and I think even Ms Clay would agree with me on this—is that it places firmly on the political radar that journey times from the south are pretty important and that we will be focusing heavily on it. I note some of the detail that Mr Steel has offered today. I wanted to go to that event on Friday night, but I did not want to cramp your style.

Mr Steel interjecting—

MR PARTON: The journey times from the south are very, very important and we will be focusing heavily on those. It is very important to us that whatever changes are made in this space give heed to those concerns.

Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

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

Question resolved in the negative.

ACT inland swimming spots—safety

MR BRADDOCK (Yerrabi) (3.46): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) in Australia, one in three drowning deaths occur in rivers and creeks;

(b) drowning deaths have increased 15 percent from 2021 to 2022 and have increased 24 percent over the past 10 years; and

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