Jennie George (Throsby, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House

(1)

expresses its concerns about the impact of the new guidelines for the CDEP program which are to apply from July 1, 2006;

(2)

draws attention to the positive outcomes of CDEP, which has been the mainstay of employment for Indigenous Australians;

(3)

recognises the unacceptably high rates of Indigenous unemployment across the nation;

(4)

notes the small percentage of Indigenous Job Network participants who gain long-term and full-time employment;

(5)

expresses serious concern about the future viability of CDEP in urban and regional areas with the introduction of a maximum limit of 52 weeks in CDEP for new participants; and

(6)

calls on the Government to recognise the value of CDEP as the mainstay of employment and community development for Indigenous Australians.

Bruce Baird (Cook, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House calls on the United Nations to:

(1)

substantially increase the level of aid to the Darfur region of the Sudan;

(2)

call upon member nations to provide peacekeeping forces to quell the civil war currently taking place in the country;

(3)

lift the profile of this catastrophic situation that confronts Darfur and the conflict which has already claimed 300,000 lives and seen 2.4 million people displaced;

(4)

work effectively with the NGO’s to ensure a substantial lift in the level of privately sourced aid going to the region; and

(5)

ensure that maximum cooperation is given to peace negotiations.