Page 3295 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 21 August 2019

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Whether you’re considering eating less meat or giving it up entirely, the benefits are clear: less risk of disease and improved health and well-being. Specifically, less meat decreases the risk of:

• Heart disease

• Stroke

• Obesity

• High blood pressure

• High cholesterol

• Type 2 diabetes

• Many cancers

I could go on and on; I have plenty of time here to go on and on. I am very disappointed at the total lack of support for this in the Assembly.

Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 2	Noes 17
Ms Le Couteur	Ms Berry	Mrs Kikkert
Mr Rattenbury	Miss C Burch	Mr Milligan
	Ms J Burch	Ms Orr
	Ms Cheyne	Mr Parton
	Mr Coe	Mr Pettersson
	Mr Gentleman	Mr Ramsay
	Mr Gupta	Mr Steel
	Mr Hanson	Mr Wall
	Mrs Jones

Question resolved in the negative.

Drought relief

MR WALL (Brindabella) (4.38): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) that severe drought conditions continue throughout NSW and the ACT;

(b) that, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, the 31 months between January 2017 and July 2019 have been the driest on record for the State of NSW;

(c) the ACT Government put in place a 50 percent freight transport subsidy scheme for ACT farm businesses based on the NSW model for a 12-month period that ended in July 2019;

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