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The Bill also provides that, upon a restraining order being made, any gun licence held by the respondent will be automatically cancelled unless the court is satisfied that it should not be, and also that the court will have a discretion to order the seizure of any gun in the respondent's possession.
I am confident that this Bill is a much needed reform for the prevention of violence in our community and an important counterpart to the protection offered by our recently amended domestic violence legislation. These amendments have the support of the Magistrates Court, the ACT Legal Aid Office, the Law Society, the Domestic Violence Crisis Service, the Australian Federal Police and, I am sure, most members of our community.
This Bill demonstrates the Alliance Government's commitment to the prevention of violence in our community. It complements a series of packages in our community service area that have been instituted in recent times, including provision for psychiatric day care for young persons, adolescent mediation and provisions relating to the 24-hour mental health crisis service, as well as ongoing funding for the Domestic Violence Crisis Service, the Conflict Resolution Service and other family dynamic resolution services in the community. I commend this Bill to the Assembly, and I present the explanatory memorandum.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
TERRITORY OWNED CORPORATIONS BILL 1990
Debate resumed from 29 November 1990, on motion by Mr Kaine:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (4.58): Mr Speaker, the Labor Party in considering this Bill, the Territory Owned Corporations Bill, is not opposed to corporatisation in principle. We believe that there are occasions where a corporate model may well be an appropriate one, particularly for some commercial government operations. But I would like to say at the outset that we do not believe that corporatisation as such represents micro-economic reform.
It is a fact that the corporatisation arrangements may simply be, in effect, shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, and will not in fact effect any kind of reform of themselves. What you need in order to achieve efficiencies is, we believe, a fundamental understanding of the role of government business enterprises, so that their functioning is more directed, and we are very concerned that the Alliance Government may in fact be using corporatisation as
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