Page 819 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 July 1989
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on that committee, as on other committees, are a cooperative venture; we are working together. We appreciated the work of Ron Owens, the departmental officers and all of those people who made submissions.
As to the report itself, I believe it has been weakened. I believe there is a general recognition from all those people who came before the committee of the need for such legislation. I do not recall any group or person saying, "No, we don't need this". Their arguments were on the points of the legislation - admittedly, some of them were very important.
Mr Moore said that the Residents Rally had the balance in this and provided a balance to the report. I believe - and I say this without rancour - that it was a weakening of the report. I really see no reason why stronger measures could not have been taken, but I acknowledge his point of view.
I have made some comments in the report in an appendix by way of reference to the designated work groups, the languages to be employed in training and supervision, and the role of unions. I think the changes to the legislation in those areas weaken a Bill that was already pretty well watered down before we got it. But they are there. It may be that the Assembly will be influenced by the debate when it comes to it and perhaps restore those provisions or hopefully make them stronger still.
There is another range of matters in the report, representing points of the legislation, which I think will need the benefit of debate in this chamber. The report is a document that requires further examination; that is the purpose of it. It comes back here now for us to consider. I hope that when it comes here we can look at it carefully again and strengthen some of those provisions.
Debate (on motion by Mr Whalan) adjourned.
STATUTORY DECLARATION
MR WHALAN (Minister for Industry, Employment and Education), by leave: It is a pity that Mr Collaery is not here to do me the courtesy of being present.
Mr Kaine: Did you tell him you were going to make a statement?
MR WHALAN: If I told him something, it might turn up in a statutory declaration. Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented in several respects by Mr Collaery in an interview on Pru Goward's program this morning. First, Mr Collaery claimed that his group - his group being the Residents Rally party, the Katharine West party, whatever they like to call themselves - - -
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