Page 929 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 March 2019
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government and in particular this minister to change her approach to this issue because there is a lot at stake here.
When you think about the families, you think about the children, when you hear the story that Mrs Kikkert passed on, this is real, this is not politics, this is about ensuring that our children are safe at public schools. And I urge the minister to do a much better job.
MS BERRY (Ginninderra—Deputy Chief Minister, Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development, Minister for Housing and Suburban Development, Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Women) (10.39), by leave: I feel like I have to correct the record here, and I am concerned that the Leader of the Opposition has decided to take the chance to have a personal go at me for comments that I have made around violence that is happening across social media; sometimes in our schools, which are overwhelmingly safe places; definitely in our communities; bullying and trolling behaviour all across the world and in this place. I was putting that into perspective: at this moment in time it is difficult to imagine a world where that does not exist. So please do not take bits out of my speech and put them into a different perspective to make people believe that I have said something different. I have not.
We have just come together as a community to bring some love and some inclusion on some particularly awful issues that have happened, across social media in particular, that we want to try to get some control of. For a lot of us it is incomprehensible, some of the things that we are witness to as a community.
At this moment in time, yes, like everybody else, I have been feeling like I cannot imagine a world without it. But I am working as hard as I possibly can to ensure that we heed all the expert advice on systems that are in place in our schools in particular, but also across all my portfolios, to make sure that Canberrans are safe, that they are included in our community in every possible way. And I will continue to do that in the most positive way. I have never made, and will never make, personal attacks on anyone in this place.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Minister for Health and Wellbeing
Motion of no confidence
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (10.41), by leave: I move:
That this Assembly:
• (1) notes:
(a) the need to support the work and wellbeing of nurses, doctors and other staff engaged in the ACT health system;
(b) systemic failure of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing to address bullying and workplace culture in general across the ACT health system;
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