Page 813 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 20 March 2019

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“I don’t want those people here in the ACT, and I don’t think anyone else does really either.

Well, what happened to Mr Corbell?

Let us listen to the Chief Police Officer. (Time expired.)

Question put:

That this bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 14
Miss C Burch	Ms Lee	Mr Barr	Ms Le Couteur
Mr Coe	Mr Milligan	Ms Berry	Ms Orr
Mrs Dunne	Mr Parton	Ms J Burch	Mr Pettersson
Mr Hanson	Mr Wall	Ms Cheyne	Mr Ramsay
Mrs Jones		Ms Cody	Mr Rattenbury
Mrs Kikkert		Ms Fitzharris	Mr Steel
Ms Lawder		Mr Gentleman	Ms Stephen-Smith

Question resolved in the negative.

Culturally and linguistically diverse Canberrans—access to disability services

MS LEE (Kurrajong) (11.19): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) more needs to be done to ensure that Canberrans from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background living with a disability can better access disability services in the ACT;

(b) disability can affect people of all ages, socioeconomic positions, and cultural backgrounds;

(c) seniors from a CALD background living with a disability are particularly vulnerable when it comes to accessing disability services in the ACT; and

(d) disability advocacy groups in the ACT perform a vital function of providing outreach, understanding and engagement for those within the disability community in the ACT but are limited in what they can specifically offer to the CALD community due to a lack of ACT Government support; and

(2) calls on the ACT Government to establish, by June 2019, a grant programme for disability advocacy groups in the ACT to specifically fund:

(a) a CALD advocate; and

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