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EXECUTIVE'S OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAM
Ministerial Statement
Consideration resumed, on motion by Mr Whalan:
That the Assembly takes note of the following paper:
Executive's objectives and program - Ministerial statement, 11 May 1989.
Debate (on motion by Mr Jensen) adjourned.
DECLARATION OF PRIVATE INTERESTS OF MEMBERS AND
IMMEDIATE FAMILIES
Motion (by Ms Follett) proposed:
That:
(1) within 28 days of the making and subscribing of an oath or affirmation as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory each Member of the Legislative Assembly shall provide to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly a declaration of the private interests of themselves and their immediate family in the form as presented to the Assembly this day and shall notify any alteration of those interests to the Speaker within 28 days of that alteration occurring; and
(2) such declarations be made available to any person on request.
MR COLLAERY (3.09): Mr Speaker, I rise to support the Chief Minister in the motion, and to endorse the proposal that there be a statement of registrable interests for the ACT Legislative Assembly. The Residents Rally takes the view that this register should include those who are in close proximity to government, in the form of senior advisers, both by way of attachment to the governing group and by way of appointment in the Territory Administration at first assistant secretary level and also including lease administrator.
Mr Speaker, the background to this proposal is one of process in other States of Australia and elsewhere in the democratic world. The President of the United States has just promulgated, with respect to senior administration officials in the States by presidential documents, a code of ethics for both members of the houses of Congress and also senior administration officials. The Rally looks forward to the Chief Minister putting forward to this
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