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AUDITOR-GENERAL - REPORT NO. 11 OF 1993
Financial Audits with Years End
ing to 30 June 1993
MADAM SPEAKER: I present, for the information of members, Auditor-General's report No. 11 of 1993, "Financial Audits with Years Ending to 30 June 1993".
Motion (by Mr Berry, by leave) agreed to:
That the Assembly authorises the publication of Auditor-General's report No. 11 of 1993.
SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
Papers
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Madam Speaker, pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act, I present subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for determinations of criteria eligibility for leases.
The schedule read as follows:
Land (Planning and Environment) Act -
Determination of criteria eligibility for certain classes of leases - No. 175 of 1993 (S266, dated 15 December 1993).
Determination of criteria for direct grants of Crown Leases - No. 174 of 1993 (S266, dated 15 December 1993).
BILL OF RIGHTS
Issues Paper
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (3.13): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present a discussion paper entitled "A Bill of Rights for the ACT". I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Madam Speaker, I present an issues paper proposing a Bill of Rights for the ACT. Bills of Rights have been an essential part of liberal democratic societies for the last 200 years. In the United States the Bill of Rights was enacted soon after the new nation was born, in 1791. In France, following the revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen formed the cornerstone of the new republic. The constitutions of many countries provide protection for individual rights and freedoms. Since the Second World War, protection for individual rights has been developed extensively at an international level. More recently, Canada and New Zealand - two countries with similar histories and legal systems to our own - have enacted Bills of Rights. These now enjoy high levels of popular support.
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