2015-12-08
Question in Parliament: My constituency question is directed to the Minister for Health. Last week the Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation was released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. It found an asthma rate of 531 per 100 000 children aged 3 to 19 in Maribyrnong, which was the highest in the state. This is 72 per cent higher than the national average and twice the rate in some eastern suburb locations. We know diesel fumes cause elevated rates of asthma in children, so we can now clearly link this finding to the massive numbers of diesel trucks in the inner west.
My question for the minister is: what will the government do about this? Will it extend school time curfews to Francis Street or finally commit to a ban on container trucks on local streets when new roads are built?