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The 1987-88 Australian national oral health survey showed that the tooth decay rate for children and adolescents in Canberra was well below the national average. When Brisbane and Canberra are compared it is found that Brisbane children between the ages of five and nine carry 59 per cent more decayed, missing or filled primary teeth than Canberra children; between the ages of 10 and 14, Brisbane children carry 53 per cent more decayed permanent teeth than do Canberra children; and between the ages of 15 and 19, Brisbane children had on average 40 per cent more decayed, missing or filled teeth. As a Brisbane child I can contribute. If anyone would like to see, I will show them later.
Mr Moore: Open your mouth.
MRS CARNELL: My teeth are all filled. All through the time that this survey was conducted Canberra had fluoride levels of one part per million. One part per million actually works. There is no good set of reasons for 0.5 parts per million, as we have had in recent months. I think that it is really important at this early stage in a new Assembly to put our best foot forward and get back to the level that we always should have had, one part per million - the level that the experts recommend, the level that I am sure Canberra people want in their water. We should show that this new Assembly is not going to be a vehicle of compromise and, to say the least, very weird ideas. I commend the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
PROSTITUTION BILL 1992
MR MOORE (10.49): I present the Prostitution Bill 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR MOORE: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Bill that I have presented and the Bill that I will present shortly, which is the Prostitution (Consequential Amendments) Bill, were presented to the Assembly last year as the Prostitution Bill 1991 and the Prostitution (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1991. The Bills last year were passed in principle with the agreement of all members of the Assembly other than Dennis Stevenson. The Bills presented were drawn from a report of a committee of the Assembly - the Select Committee on HIV, Illegal Drugs and Prostitution - and the drafting instructions given were simply to draft the Bill from that report.
Having passed the Bill in principle, we then had a situation in this Assembly where, with some modification, the Liberals supported the Bill that I had presented. I was also told that the Residents Rally, whom you may remember, also supported that Bill in principle. Five minutes prior to the detail stage of the Bill coming before the Assembly, I was told by the leader of the Residents Rally, Bernard Collaery, that they had changed their minds. That was a fairly standard procedure for the Residents Rally.
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