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or ban the availability of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. It will be effective legislation, and I trust that all members of this Assembly will support it.
Similarly, Mr Speaker, I have already put in train the drafting of amendments to the ACT Domestic Violence Act. A great many of Canberra's violent crimes are committed in the home. These amendments will extend protection to family or household based relationships and they will enable children to apply for protection against domestic violence. I believe these changes are fundamental to the development of a more caring society, a society, Mr Speaker, where no-one need live in fear.
There are many other legislative reforms which we, the Labor Party, will be pursuing in opposition. It is not our intention to be a classical opposition. We will not simply be negative. Mr Speaker, I do have an agenda for Canberra and I will be pursuing that agenda for the people of Canberra, be it in government or in opposition.
Mr Speaker, the people of Canberra know what the Labor Party agenda is about. It is not an extravagant one, but it is based on maintaining Canberra as the great place it is, maintaining our environment, maintaining our sense of community, and increasing equality and equity in the life of our community - whether we are in government or in opposition. Mr Speaker, it is time for this ramshackle Liberal coalition to come clean on what they are on about.
DAY OF NEXT MEETING
MR COLLAERY (Deputy Chief Minister) (12.17): Mr Speaker, I move:
That the Assembly, at its rising, adjourn until Tuesday, 13 February 1990, unless the Speaker fixes an alternative day or hour of meeting on receipt of a request in writing from an absolute majority of members.
Mr Speaker, much has been said this morning about the perceived inadequacies of the alliance Government. I doubt, Mr Speaker, whether the persons who spoke opposite us have seen our joint policies yet.
Ms Follett: Has anyone?
MR COLLAERY: I doubt whether they addressed betterment taxes and other issues. They have been distributed to anyone who requested them, but such is the opposition's disinterest, Mr Speaker, in participating in this chamber that they have not approached us for our policies. It is extraordinary.
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