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1、LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THEAUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORYHANSARDTUESDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2015Visitor3573Reproductive health services3573Justice and Community SafetyStanding Committee3574Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal ServicesStanding Committee3574Public AccountsStanding Committee3583One
2、 Canberra reference group (Ministerial statement)3600Ministerial delegation to India (Ministerial statement)3605Strengthening high risk families (Ministerial statement)3608Crimes (Domestic and Family Violence) Legislation Amendment Bill 20153611Questions without notice: Hospitalsstaffing3614Schoolsa
3、utism3615Transportadvertising3616Housingacquisition3617Transportpublic3619Transportlight rail3622PlanningManuka precinct3624Transportlight rail3625Transportlight rail3627Transportlight rail3628Supplementary answers to questions without notice: Transportadvertising3631Housingacquisition3632Papers3632
4、Capital Metro Agencyannual report 2014-15revised3634Papers3634Public AccountsStanding Committee3635Planning and Development Act 2007variation No 351 to the territory plan3635Public AccountsStanding Committee3639Papers3639Community Services Directorate annual report 2014-15corrigendum3639Papers3640Go
5、vernment transparency (Matter of public importance)3641Crimes (Domestic and Family Violence) Legislation Amendment Bill 20153655Lotteries (Approvals) Amendment Bill 20153660Building (Loose-fill Asbestos Eradication) Legislation Amendment Bill 20153663Visitors3672Building (Loose-fill Asbestos Eradica
6、tion) Legislation Amendment Bill 20153672Adjournment: Buk bilong Pikinini3681Ms Mary Porter MLA3682Commonwealth Parliamentary Association3682Trinity Christian School3684Tidbinbilla extravaganza3684Schedule of amendments: Schedule 1: Building (Loose-fill Asbestos Eradication) Legislation Amendment Bi
7、ll 20153686Legislative Assembly for the ACT27 October 2015Tuesday, 27 October 2015 MADAM SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne) took the chair at 10 am, made a formal recognition that the Assembly was meeting on the lands of the traditional custodians, and asked members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their
8、 responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory.VisitorMADAM SPEAKER: I acknowledge the presence in the gallery of former member Mr Hargreaves. Welcome back to the Assembly.Reproductive health servicesPaper and statement by ministerMS BERRY (GinninderraMinister for Housing, Minis
9、ter for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Community Services, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Women and Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Social Inclusion and Equality): For the information of members, I present:Reproductive health services in the AC
10、TRights to privacy and safe accessWomens Centre for Health Matters, and Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT.I seek leave to make a brief statement on the paper.Leave granted.MS BERRY: This paper comes from over 725 people collected over a couple of weeks. It supports and asks that the Assembly sup
11、port the creation of privacy zones around the termination of pregnancy services in the ACT. It goes to the right for women to have access to termination of pregnancy services in privacy without harassment, intimidation or humiliation and the need for that right to be weighed against the right to fre
12、edom of expression.The right to privacy zones such as those being proposed by the ACT Greens member Mr Shane Rattenbury in the Health (Patient Privacy) Amendment Bill 2015 successfully balances the interests of all community members, and because of the protestors conduct, can only be limited to the
13、extent necessary to protect an individuals rights to privacy and safe access to health services.There are many spaces in Canberra where people can protest lawfully, such as here outside the Assembly. I have given an invitation to those people who have taken it upon themselves to protest outside the
14、health facility to come along here and protest to the lawmakers within the Assembly: members of the ACT Legislative Assembly.Establishing a privacy zone outside these facilities would provide reassurance and security to women, their families and healthcare staff, which is exactly what they should be
15、 entitled to. This paper urges members of the Assembly to make representations, to support this issue and to vote for the creation of privacy zones around termination of pregnancy services facilities when the opportunity presents itself. In the conversations I have had with members of the community about the situation that has been occurring outside the health clinic, I have learned that women feel they should be safe and protected when entering any health facility across the ACT, that they should be able to do this without the fear of being harass
