Page 3015 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 September 1993
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The need to provide constant care and attention is physically and emotionally demanding and can result in carers becoming very isolated from the rest of the community. In turn, these pressures, combined with isolation, can cause health problems for the carers themselves and may result in further concern regarding the ongoing care of the person with Alzheimer's disease. It is important that the community is aware of the toll such care can take on the individual and that support groups and the community as a whole are given every opportunity to let carers know that there is support available for them in their role as carers.
In closing, I would like to mention that a public meeting was held on 4 September, and at that meeting an ACT Alzheimer's Association was established. Therefore, Canberra now has two associations which will provide support and advice for members of the community suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their carers - the new association and the Carers Association of the ACT. I ask members of the Assembly and the ACT community to give their support to these associations. I present a copy of this statement and I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Discussion Paper on Feral Animals and Invasive Plants
MR MOORE (3.58): I seek leave to present a discussion paper of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment, and to move a motion in relation to that paper.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: I present a discussion paper of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment on feral animals and invasive plants in the ACT. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Mr Deputy Speaker, as a member of the Conservation, Heritage and Environment Standing Committee of the First Assembly, I moved in that committee, and got non-partisan support, to write a discussion paper on fuelwood heating in the ACT. That was the first time that technique had been used, and I must say that members of the committee found it a very useful way to deal with community discussion. Similarly, the same standing committee, when I became chair, introduced a discussion paper on solar energy and cogeneration of electricity. This is the third discussion paper produced by the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment. The advantage of discussion papers of this nature is that they set out for the community a concept of the direction in which the committee is headed and the sorts of ideas the committee has in mind, so that the community has an appropriate opportunity to respond rather than just to advise.
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