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MRS CARNELL: My position on densitometry is that it should be made available to women who, for medical reasons, cannot take oestrogen, either peri-menopausally or post-menopausally. This is medically sound. Those women are not in a position to use calcium on its own. It just does not work. Therefore, densitometry is a women's issue. Certainly, densitometry is not covered by Medicare. Mr Berry also made the comment that I believed that it was. It is not covered by Medicare because the Federal Government, yet again, has ignored women's issues. The fact is that densitometry should be available, and I believe that it should be available to women - - -
Mr Connolly: On a point of order: Whether densitometry should be available is really a debating point. Mrs Carnell should perhaps read the way Mr Humphries responds to these matters. He concisely says where he believes he was misrepresented and does not enter into a debate. That is the way it should be done.
MRS CARNELL: I have said what I wanted to say. It is all right.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: I present report No. 1 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on the Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation, and I seek leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: The report I have just presented contains the committee's comments on 57 pieces of subordinate legislation. I commend the report to the Assembly.
CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE SUPREME COURT
AND JUDICIAL TENURE
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (3.25): I move:
That the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory requests the Commonwealth Parliament to:
(1) amend the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 by inserting a new Part, "PART VA - THE JUDICIARY", to provide for:
(a) the existence of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory having all original and appellate jurisdiction that is necessary to administer justice in the ACT and jurisdiction conferred by an Act, law of the Territory or Ordinance, provided that the Supreme
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