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If we are to get these sorts of amendments at very short notice, such as we did today, there has to be a genuine attempt to explain what on earth they mean or else we have to be given some notice of the amendment. As I say, I do not oppose it, but nor do I understand it.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
STATUTORY AUTHORITIES (AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS) BILL 1990
Debate resumed from 5 June 1990, on motion by Mr Kaine:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (6.00): I will be very brief on this matter because the Opposition supports this legislation. I am very pleased to see that there is some degree of financial rigour being exercised in the expenditure of taxpayers' money. It is more or less just a housekeeping piece of legislation that really sets out to regularise some of the auditing arrangements for statutory authorities and to make provision for them to report from the period of self-government until the end of this financial year.
It is a fairly uncontroversial piece of legislation and, as I say, we will be supporting it. However, it does lead me to wonder - as a bit of an aside, while I am on my feet - what has become of the Government's response to the need for some sort of an inquiry into corruption in the ACT. It has been a very long time coming. When you consider that Mr Collaery, in particular, has made such an enormous play of corruption in the public sector in the ACT - - -
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I have no understanding of what an inquiry into corruption could possibly have to do with this. It is totally beyond me.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please speak to the point.
MS FOLLETT: I can explain that to you. Mr Speaker, the connection here is that the whole role of auditing is to be accountable for the organisation, for the expenditure of money within that organisation, and so on. Surely, if corruption has got anything to do with anything - and you would have to talk to Mr Collaery about that - it concerns questions of accountability. I ask again: what has become of the Government's response to that question of corruption?
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