Page 3052 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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Mr Speaker, I cannot overestimate the importance of this development. ACT citizens, including our corporate citizens, together with interested groups such as the accounting and legal professions, are now able to have their views heard on a wide variety of corporations law matters. Although the corporations law is a Commonwealth law and not an ACT law, the ACT public deserve the same rights as other Australians to know about and contribute to discussion on these issues. I am pleased to say that the Commonwealth and other States recognise that.
The first MINCO meeting at which the ACT was permitted to exercise its new rights was held in Cairns on 11 July in conjunction with meetings of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General and Ministers concerned with censorship matters. I attended that meeting as the representative of the ACT. The matters discussed ranged over a wide area, some of which, when implemented, will have significant impact on business operations in the ACT. It was gratifying to know that the ACT is now fully informed of these developments and in a position to contribute to the debate.
Mr Speaker, finally I would like to say that I would be more than happy to receive comments from either members of this Assembly or the general public on corporations law matters. Where appropriate, I will attempt to ensure that those comments are taken into account by MINCO Ministers in their deliberations. Mr Speaker, although a less important subject than single member electorates, the Ministerial Council for Corporations is nonetheless of interest to the Assembly. I present the following paper:
Corporations - Ministerial Council - Ministerial statement, 10 September 1991.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Matter of Public Importance
MR SPEAKER: I have received a letter from Mr Moore proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly for discussion, namely:
The contradictory and damaging nature of the Labor Government's handling of the hospital redevelopment program.
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