Page 3139 - Week 15 - Thursday, 14 December 1989
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MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, there are 16 recommendations in your report. Do you think you could address some of them?
MR WOOD: I do not know; Mr Speaker, I do not want to lighten this. You would know that I have had a very considerable involvement in committees, and it has been a rewarding experience for me and for all of us. I am now very concerned that this excellent committee structure, via the executive deputies, is about to be demolished. I am concerned about that, and I think that my comments are valid. I do not want to express any humour, because I do not think the situation calls for that. I hope that my comments and my worries are groundless, but I fear that the situation is otherwise.
Mr Speaker, this document has proposed some very modest, sensible measures against possible corruption. It is a reasonable outcome for what little need there is in the community. Regrettably, today in this Assembly we may see measures that bring about a corruption of parliamentary authority, and we may see measures that bring about a corruption of the open scrutiny that has occurred for six and a half months in this Assembly, and we may see the corruption of an all-powerful executive, because, if we are not careful, that is the path we are going down. I left an assembly forcibly some years ago where that operated. I hope that it will never occur in this Assembly.
Debate (on motion by Mr Jensen) adjourned.
SELF-GOVERNMENT - SELECT COMMITTEE
Resolution of Appointment
MR COLLAERY (Deputy Chief Minister) (11.06), by leave: Mr Speaker, I move:
That paragraph (2) of the resolution of appointment of the Select Committee on Self-Government be amended by omitting "on the first sitting day of 1990" and substituting "by 30 April 1990".
This, quite simply, is a request of the all-party committee that is pursuing the self-government review. Mr Speaker, there is an important report of the Federal Parliament to come down on matters affecting the electoral system. There are other issues, and certainly one of those is to determine whether this Assembly can operate properly and correctly with the current opposition. Those issues, Mr Speaker, will certainly entertain the committee. There are certainly a number of submissions yet to be received. I endorse the request of the committee, made by all members of the committee on my advice, that they be given until 30 April 1990 to report.
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