Page 814 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 July 1989
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rehabilitation and compensation of Commonwealth employees, concerning the joint administration of occupational health and safety in the ACT. We made further recommendations in relation to Commonwealth legislation.
Our conclusions are listed at page 15; the recommendations, 12 in all, are at pages 16 and 17. There are the submissions, and additional and dissenting comments by me at page 20 and by Mr Wood at page 21. It is good to see Mr Wood has finally got out of being on one committee.
I want to thank a few people now, on behalf of the committee. First and foremost, I would like to thank Mr Ron Owens, our secretary, for the assistance he gave this committee. Although Mr Wood has served on a large number of committees, and continues to do so, Mr Moore and I certainly have very little experience in that regard, and I think the three of us found Mr Ron Owens' assistance of great value. On behalf of the committee, I thank him very sincerely for all his efforts.
I also thank the departmental officers, Mr Adrian Rumsey and his superiors, such as Mr Guilfoyle, who gave invaluable assistance in the committee's deliberations and interpretations. I thank my two colleagues, Mr Michael Moore and Mr Bill Wood, for their time and efforts, their invaluable assistance and their comments.
Finally, I thank all persons and all groups who made submissions to this committee. I have a number of dissenting comments, on which I will elaborate later when we get to the detail stage, and a number of more specific and detailed comments in relation to other bits and pieces of the legislation. Mr Speaker, I present the report of the Select Committee on the Occupational Health and Safety Bill 1989, July 1989, duly signed by me as chairman, and attachments. I move:
That the recommendations be agreed to.
MR MOORE (4.19): Mr Speaker, the interesting part of this committee for the Residents Rally really was, we believe, that our task became to present a very balanced view. The Rally's occupational health and safety policy from the campaign is that the Rally, in consultation with residents, unions and business, will seek to introduce rapidly the legislation which has been prepared by the ACT Administration on occupational health and safety.
My goal was set quite clearly. It needed to be done. It was that consultation process that we believed was very important. The process started with the advisory committee when we agreed with the Liberals that there ought to be a period of consultation on this very important Bill, to which we could contribute.
One thing to note about the report that has been tabled is that there are additional comments by both the Liberal
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