Page 4513 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 26 November 2019

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Transport Canberra bus advertising must meet Australian Advertising Standards and adhere to the additional criteria set by Transport Canberra. More information on the standards can be found on the Transport Canberra website: https://www.transport.act.gov.au/contact-us/advertise-with-us

Each advertisement that is placed on Transport Canberra buses is reviewed by Go Transit Australia who manages advertising on the Transport Canberra bus fleet on behalf the Government. Whilst I understand and agree with the outrage from the community about the comments made by Mr Jones, in this case, as the advertisement advertises a radio station, and the advertisement does not display an offensive message, the advertisement meets the Australian Advertising Standards and Transport Canberra’s guidelines.

Unfortunately, the ACT Government is not in a position to ban or remove the advertising at this time. I can confirm that we will be working to ensure that there will not be any Government advertising during the Alan Jones program.

Thank you for raising this matter. I trust this information is of assistance.

Motion to take note of petitions and responses

MADAM SPEAKER: Pursuant to standing order 98A, I propose the question:

That the petitions and responses so lodged be noted.

Out-of-order petition

MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (10.04): I seek leave to table an out-of-order petition with 89 signatures in the same terms as the paper petition and e-petition which we are noting on transport action for the climate emergency.

Leave granted.

MS LE COUTEUR: I present the following paper:

Petition which does not conform with the standing orders—Active travel—Ms Le Couteur (89 signatures).

These petitions have been backed by three of Canberra’s community organisations: Pedal Power, the Conservation Council, and Living Streets Canberra. They respond to this Assembly’s motion of earlier this year that acknowledged that Australia, and of course Canberra, faces a climate emergency.

The bushfires we are now seeing demonstrate that we are indeed in a climate emergency. These fires are not the fires of the past. They are the fires of our hotter, drier future. Bushfire crises in Australia used to last for only a few days, or weeks at the most. There have usually only been one or two major crises each year, and they have not been in spring.

This year we have had rolling bushfire crises since September, and the season still has another five months to run. These fires are also burning out rainforests that have never


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