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TRUCK (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (11.27): I present the Truck (Amendment) Bill 1990. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Upon the establishment of the ACT as the seat of government, those Acts which applied in New South Wales were adopted as Acts of the Territory. The New South Wales Acts Act 1986 sought to consolidate those Acts which still apply in the Territory without undertaking any reform of their provisions. One of the New South Wales Acts which was consolidated was the Truck Act 1900. The Truck Act 1900 relates to contracts made with respect to wages and requires wages to be paid in money and not in goods.
At the time the New South Wales Acts were consolidated, which was prior to self-government, the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, which then reviewed ACT legislation, expressed concern about various provisions in the Truck Act 1900 which contained strict liability offences and inappropriately defined offences. The then Commonwealth Minister gave an undertaking to implement such legislative changes as were necessary to overcome the committee's concerns. The Bill will bring the legislation into line with current attitudes to statute law as it affects individual rights and liberties. Mr Speaker, I present the explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Ms Follett) adjourned.
LONG SERVICE LEAVE (BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Debate resumed from 29 March 1990, on motion by Mr Duby:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR BERRY (11.30): The Long Service Leave (Building and Construction Industry) (Amendment) Bill is a Bill of some significance for workers in the construction industry. It is important in no uncertain way for the delivery of conditions for those workers in relation to long service leave. Those conditions which are picked up in the legislation have been the subject of some dispute between the then Commonwealth Government and workers in that industry on a number of occasions.
I must say at this stage that it was the same construction workers who fought for those conditions who gathered outside this place in relation to other matters, and those same construction workers will recall for a long time Mr Collaery's description of them as "grunting sheep".
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