Page 2752 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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This centre was recommended as a priority need by a community workshop held in February this year which was widely representative of women's interests in the ACT. The centre will be jointly funded over four years under the program, and its establishment will be a two-stage process. In the first two years it will be primarily a women's health information exchange and it will provide a meeting place for women's health groups.
Ms Follett: Are you sure this is not a statement - absolutely sure?
MR HUMPHRIES: I can see the members opposite are not interested in the efforts towards women's health in this Territory. However, members elsewhere in the chamber may be.
Mr Collaery: They do not like any good news. They only want bad news.
MR HUMPHRIES: Indeed, Mr Deputy Chief Minister, they do not like good news.
Members interjected.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members, otherwise we will spend five minutes just going to-and-fro on what should be a fairly short answer.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is not intended that the centre will duplicate or replace any existing women's health services in the ACT. In the third and fourth years, under the direction of an independent management committee, the centre will also provide specially targeted primary health care services for women. Commonwealth funding is also available for a consumer education and information strategy under the program. The ACT will focus on a major theme in each of the four years while maintaining the flexibility to respond to immediate needs. This year's funding has been devoted to the theme of menopause and related health issues for women.
School Closures - Walking Distances
MRS GRASSBY: I would like to ask a question of Mr Humphries. We might get an answer to this one. As a result of the closures of schools, what is now the greatest distance that children will have to travel to attend their new school? How long does it take for a six-year-old to walk two to three kilometres?
Mr Duby: Ask Mr Connolly.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, I think Mrs Grassby should ask Mr Connolly since he asked the same question last week.
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