Page 36 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 16 February 1993
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MR DE DOMENICO: Yes, we would. Mrs Carnell said yes and nodded. I am pleased that she said yes as well; so would she. Let me also tell you that you, Minister, and the Government have had a chance to do all sorts of things, but you have not taken up that chance. You have done nothing; you have sat on your hands. If you read the Canberra Times, as we all do, on Saturday it said a very interesting thing. It said that this Government was doing nothing, virtually, in an attempt not to lose the next election.
Mind you, it is very careful in what it is doing. What have we had from one year of this Labor Government, since the last election? We have made it easier to procure abortions, we have banned circus animals, and we are talking about social justice things all the time. The greatest social injustice in this city is that 10,900 Canberrans are out of work - not by any fault of the Opposition, mind you. They are out of work because of Keating's spending nine years as Treasurer and one year as Prime Minister, giving us the recession we had to have.
I know that some people have their heads bowed in shame across the other side of this room, and so you should bow your heads in shame. But you do not have long to wait because, come 13 March, there will be vision nationally and the ACT will be a part of that vision. It is the cost of labour that is restricting us. As the Chief Minister says from time to time, the future of employment in this city rests in the hands of the private sector. It is about time the Chief Minister put her money where her mouth is, got off her hands and started making it easier for the private sector to employ more people.
MADAM SPEAKER: The discussion is now concluded.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Reports and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: I present reports No. 23 of 1992 and No. 1 of 1993 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the reports.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 23, dated 24 December 1992, which I have just presented was circulated when the Assembly was not sitting, on 15 January 1993, pursuant to the resolution of appointment of 27 March 1992. Report No. 1 of 1993 contains the committee's comments on 24 pieces of subordinate legislation and three government responses. I commend the reports to the Assembly.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
Statement by Speaker
MADAM SPEAKER: I inform the Assembly that on 9 February 1993 the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures resolved to review the standing orders which were adopted by the Assembly on 11 May 1989.
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