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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 9 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2566 ..

2. caging for their entire lives in cages with sloping wire floors, where the only possible position of comfort is to roost on the bodies of other hens.

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to: abolish the battery cage system of egg production in the ACT.

The petition read as follows:

To the Honourable the Speaker and the Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly:

The petition of certain residents of Canberra draws to the attention of the Assembly:

The lack of ramp access and automatic doors to McDonald's Family Restaurant in Bunda St Civic. The citizens below feel that this lack of easy access disadvantages specific groups such as the physically challenged, the elderly and parents with strollers.

Your petitioners therefore ask that your members investigate the installation of a ramp and sliding doors at the location stated above.

The petition read as follows:

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:

The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly: that any legislation to restrict shopping hours in the ACT will be against the interests of shoppers and will cause job losses.

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to vote against the Government's proposed restricted shopping hours legislation.

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