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Hansard 7 March 2002 7 Mar 2002 Legislative Assembly 449 THURSDAY, 7 MARCH 2002 Mr SPEAKER (Hon. R. K. Hollis, Redcliffe) read prayers and took the chair at 9.30 a.m. CIVICS EDUCATION PROJECT Mr SPEAKER: Order! I advise all honourable members that I have given permission to a civics education project of the Department of Premier and Cabinet and Education Queensland to obtain video footage in the Assembly today. An unattended camera will operate from the rear of the chamber for the whole day, while another camera operator will film from the regular media pool locations from 11.30 a.m. until midafternoon. I thank members for their cooperation for this worthwhile project. MEMBERS' SURVEY Mr SPEAKER: Order! I draw honourable members' attention to the members' survey which has been delivered to their Parliament House offices. I ask all members to please complete the survey by the due date as it is part of the Legislative Assembly's performance reporting process. PETITIONS Security at Nightclubs Dr Lesley Clark from 3,353 petitioners, requesting the House to enhance the safety of patrons and the public by legislating that hand held metal detectors be required to be used at nightclubs by security staff who are responsible for admitting persons to such establishments. Little Mulgrave Mr Pitt from 73 petitioners, requesting the House to give consideration to retaining the name Little Mulgrave in the Register of Place Names as a separate locality. Bridge, Pomona-Kin Kin Road Miss Elizabeth Roberts from 436 petitioners, requesting the House to replace the bridge on Pomona-Kin Kin Road, Pomona with a higher and wider one with improved approaches. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality in Queensland Hon. P. D. BEATTIE (Brisbane Central—ALP) (Premier and Minister for Trade) (9.33 a.m.), by leave: The Queensland and Commonwealth governments have reached agreement on a major initiative to address salinity and water quality problems in the state. Together, the Commonwealth and Queensland governments have committed $162 million—that is, $81 million each—to combat this problem. Salinity poses a major threat to our rural industries. If not managed, it could lay waste to vast tracts of prime rural land, as it has done elsewhere in Australia, notably the Murray-Darling Basin. Our agreement with the Commonwealth government recognises four priority regions for funding: the Burdekin-Fitzroy, the Border Rivers, the Condamine-Balonne-Maranoa, and the Lockyer-Bremer-Upper Brisbane, Burnett and Mary River regions. The agreement, which was signed by both the Prime Minister and me, establishes the arrangements for implementing the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality in Queensland. The national action plan commits Queensland and the Commonwealth to address water quality and salinity in partnership with local governments and community based organisations. Salinity and deteriorating water quality have the potential to seriously affect the sustainability of Queensland's agricultural production. This is one of the most significant environmental problems confronting Queensland and the rest of Australia. We were the first state to sign up to the intergovernmental agreement covering the national action plan and, because there is a very close relationship between tree clearing and salinity, I am keen to finalise a tree clearing compensation package with the Commonwealth. We want the same partnership on tree clearing as we now have for salinity. 450 Ministerial Statement 7 Mar 2002 If we can cooperatively manage these two highly significant natural resource issues, we will, as a government, have gone a long way towards preventing a repetition of some of the disastrous land degradation issues that characterise our southern states. I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a news release issued by both the Prime Minister and me which sets out the details because of the significance of this issue. Leave granted. Prime Minister Queensland salinity and water quality national action plan agreement The Queensland Premier, Mr Peter Beattie, and the Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, are pleased to announce the signing of a Bilateral Agreement under the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality to address salinity and water quality problems in Queensland. The Bilateral Agreement establishes the arrangements for implementing the National Action Plan in Queensland. The National Action Plan commits Queensland and the Commonwealth to address water quality and salinity in partnership with local governments and community-based organisations. Together the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments have committed $81 million each of new funding for spending on activities to prevent and address salinity and deteriorating water quality in the State. This funding will be applied to four 'priority regions' in Queensland. Salinity and deteriorating water quality have the potential to seriously affect the sustainability of Queensland's agriculture production, the conservation of its biological diversity and the viability of infrastructure and regional communities. Activities in Queensland will focus on: rigorous scientific assessment; identifying targets for natural resource health; planning for integrated natural resource management; investing in priority on-ground action to prevent and mitigate salinity and deteriorating water quality impacts for communities, industry and the environment; building partnerships between the community, landholders and government through an integrated planning process and developing community capacity; and augmenting and expanding the work already under way in the State through the Natural Heritage Trust. The active involvement of communities is the cornerstone of the National Action Plan. The Bilateral Agreement will enable communities to take responsibility for planning and implementing natural resource management strategies, in partnership with all levels of government, that meet their priorities for sustainable development and ongoing viability in their regions and in the broader community. Under the National Action Plan Queensland regional bodies will develop integrated natural resource management plans for their catchments/regions. The Commonwealth and Queensland Governments will jointly invest in actions aimed at addressing salinity and water quality problems in the priority regions, in accordance with these plans, and help to build the capacity of communities and landholders to deal with these issues. Addressing salinity and water quality issues is the most significant environmental challenge facing Australia and will remain a high priority for the Federal Government over coming years. The Queensland Government is fully committed to addressing natural resource management issues, as demonstrated through being the first state to sign up to the Intergovernmental Agreement covering the National Action Plan and having already announced the establishment of a number of 'regional NRM bodies' to implement the National Action Plan. 6 March 2002 MINISTERIAL STATEMENT Queensland Institute of Medical Research; Smart State Hon. P. D. BEATTIE (Brisbane Central—ALP) (Premier and Minister for Trade) (9.35 a.m.), by leave: This ministerial statement is about Queensland continuing to build itself as the Smart State of Australia. The Queensland Institute of Medical Research has just received a $3.43 million grant from Bermuda based Atlantic Philanthropies to further its work in developing a new treatment for cancer without harmful side effects. This grant will be used to establish a Cell Based Cancer Therapy Research Centre within QIMR's new Comprehensive Cancer Research Centre, which the Health Minister and I opened last year. I know that she is excited about this news as much as I am. This project has tremendous potential to benefit people here and around the world, with the clinical trials to involve patients with advanced melanoma, leukaemia, lymphoma and prostate cancer. Approximately 15 of QIMR's 460 scientists will be working on this research in the short term, with greater numbers of scientists being employed in the forthcoming years. The treatment is based on harnessing the patient's own immune system to recognise and attack cancer cells. It will involve removing the patient's cancer tissue and obtaining immune cells from a blood sample. The cells are then cultured in the laboratory and re-infused back into the patient through an 7 Mar 2002 Ministerial Statement 451 intravenous drip. While there are other cell based therapies being researched by other organisations, QIMR is the only one utilising four different types of cells to harness an immune response against cancer cells. Other organisations are using only one or two cell categories in their clinical trials. The researchers will be working closely with clinicians from various Queensland hospitals. The Atlantic Philanthropies is a charitable organisation consisting of The Atlantic Foundation and The Atlantic Trust. It began giving out grants in 1982. Since then, Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded approximately 2,600 grants totalling $US2.1 billion. Atlantic Philanthropies identifies and supports leaders in the field who are dedicated to learning, knowledge building and solving pressing social problems. The QIMR is one of Australia's leading medical research institutes and is now, with 460 scientists on staff, the largest in Australia in terms of scientists, variety of projects and diseases being researched. As such, QIMR is one of the few organisations in Australia
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