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examined, either in the context of the activities of the Prices Surveillance Authority or in the context of our own regulatory controls.
Mr Speaker, in recent months I have attended a meeting of the Consumer Affairs Ministers. There the ACT played an important role in bringing forward uniform credit legislation for this country and there the ACT signed a national protocol on uniform trade measurement issues and legislation. The Government has introduced the door-to-door trading legislation to the Assembly and, as members are well aware, the Government is moving forward with the fair trading legislation in the commercial tenancy arena as well. Also, the Government has referred the very strong consumer issues to do with landlord and tenancy reform to the Law Reform Committee, and I could go on. Another area is the control of tobacco absorption. There the Minister for Health has moved decisively, with the support of the Opposition, to look at those consumer issues. As well, the Government is paying close attention to the under-age drinking aspects of liquor sales and to liquor regulation itself. Importantly, the Social Policy Committee of this Assembly has taken on a vital new reference to do with youth behavioural issues.
I cannot see any substance whatsoever for Mr Connolly's trite throwaway line that this Government is not looking at consumer issues. There is a very strong consumer platform and a very strong and vibrant Consumer Affairs Bureau. The public servants are working so hard, as members know, and those who read the press - particularly the village press, as I could call it - know that the Consumer Affairs Bureau is responding well to the requirements that this Alliance Government has placed. So, it is with great pleasure that I respond to Mr Connolly decisively and overwhelmingly on that trite criticism. Nevertheless, I thank the house for its support for the Bill.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS CARE SERVICE
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed from 12 September 1990, on motion by Mr Humphries:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (11.24): The issues before the house in this debate are very broad. Mr Berry stood in the adjournment debate recently and used the situation and condition of a named person in the community for political
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