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Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (4.32): I thank members for their support of those amendments. The Government did not speak to those amendments, but the Hansard should record that the Government's support for the amendments was for the reasons set out in the response to the committee's recommendations, which was tabled last night. Given that we are now on the last package of amendments, it means that a process that was commenced in 1986, which has been a very long and very tortuous process, is now brought to an end. I expect that the Assembly will support these remaining provisions. The Bill will then be put to the Assembly and, I trust, passed unanimously.
I can assure the Assembly that my agency will leave no stone unturned to ensure that we get this legislation up and running as quickly as possible. As I indicated last night, I think we can get that done in a matter of weeks. I assure the Assembly that, while it has taken from 1986 to today to get this legislation enacted, the Housing and Community Services Bureau will ensure that it is up and running as quickly as possible and that the long wait of many members of our community is at last brought to an end.
Remainder of Bill agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
LABOUR MINISTERS CONFERENCE
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed from 17 November 1992, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR DE DOMENICO (4.35): Madam Speaker, I am delighted to be able finally to talk about an issue that has been on the notice paper for some time. It is perhaps better to talk about these things now that the Federal election is over. This goes to show how versatile the Liberal team is. There are a number of people who can talk on a number of issues. We are not constrained in that, unlike people on the opposite side of the house.
Madam Speaker, you would think that when a Minister represents a Territory or State or any other jurisdiction at a national conference he would take pride in using that opportunity to tell everybody else what a great job is being done in the jurisdiction he is responsible for. Indeed, most Ministers would agree with me and most Ministers would do that as a matter of course. Whilst some of the things that were mentioned by the Minister sound very impressive, I cannot see anything in the statement the Minister made that tells us exactly what is happening in terms of innovations in industrial relations or anything else in the ACT. As would be expected so short a time after the Victorian election, the Minister did try to cause a diversion by talking about what he believed was going on in Victoria. That is fine; he is entitled to his opinion.
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