Page 1411 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 26 September 1989
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Mr Da Deppo has since applied to vary the lease purpose clause to permit the display of waterfowl and perhaps other animals in the future. Conservation and land management advised that this proposal would require strict controls over the keeping of animals to be incorporated in the existing lease. This application is still subject to negotiation. Mr Da Deppo has requested an increase of 2,000 square metres in the maximum gross floor area to be permitted under the lease. That request has not been progressed at this time. In relation to the actual terms of the lease purpose clause, which was part of the question, I do not have the precise details of the lease purpose clause here with me, but I will make them available to the Assembly later this sitting day.
Mr Kaine: Frankly, Mr Speaker, I am absolutely appalled that the Minister has wasted so much of our time. He had reams of paper but he could not answer the simple question, and made no attempt to do so.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine! You are making a statement.
Occupational Health and Safety
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. Mr Whalan adjourned the debate on the report of the Committee on the Occupational Health and Safety Bill 1989, on 6 July this year. The Labor Party has pushed for the implementation of this Bill since the advisory committee to Federal Minister Clyde Holding in April. Why then has the Government failed to protect so many workers in its reluctance to bring forward this Bill?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I think the answer to that is very simple. It is because we in the Labor Party see the trade unions as an essential part of the protection of any worker's conditions of work. As I am sure Mr Speaker will be aware, the current proposal on the occupational health and safety legislation does not adequately address the role of trade unions. It is the Government's view that that role must be adequately addressed in the legislation that goes through this Assembly.
Youth Homelessness
MR BERRY: Mr Collaery asked me the following question without notice:
I refer to the question asked by my colleague Mr Humphries regarding the Caring for Adolescents in Need of Assistance group at Manuka, known as CANA. I draw ... attention to the fact that the chairman of that group is Terry Higgins, QC, of their party, and one of
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