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Mr Collaery: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am seeking to clarify whether those consequential amendments anticipate detailed agreements. I think it would be more appropriate for us to deal with them at the detail stage. They assume agreement to some of the details in the Prostitution Bill to which some of us do not agree.
MR MOORE: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I appreciate the concerns that Mr Collaery raises and therefore I move:
That order of the day No. 2, private members' business, be postponed until a later hour this day.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PUBLIC CORRUPTION BILL 1991
MR COLLAERY (11.31): I present the Public Corruption Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Against a background of growing community concern over leasehold administration and government contracting, the Residents Rally gave an election pledge in 1988 that a corruption monitoring mechanism would be introduced in the Territory. Following that election pledge, the Rally introduced a motion in this Assembly on 1 June 1989 which resulted in a referral to the Public Accounts Committee of consideration of the composition, terms of reference and powers of an independent advisory committee against corruption.
In November 1989, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts recommended that a body be established to have specific functions to receive allegations or complaints of corrupt conduct involving ACT public officials, to determine which agency is the most appropriate to investigate and act on the complaint or allegation or on-forward the complaint or allegation, and to receive reports from those agencies and to monitor the type and resolution of complaints and allegations. On 27 May 1991, the Alliance Cabinet finally approved a public corruption Bill to give effect to the committee's recommendations.
Members will recall that when the Labor Government issued its legislative program it listed the Public Corruption Bill in its second priority listing - in other words, as we now realise, not to be reached, given the Labor priorities. On Monday last, the Rally introduced correlative reforms to the Crimes Act and, in introducing that Bill, the Rally stated that the Labor Party had no intention of introducing the Public Corruption Bill. No denial, as yet, has been
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