Page 406 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 2 March 1994

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Mr Humphries: She is a clever lady, I think. She is getting out while she is ahead.

Ms Follett: What a snaky little comment!

MR BERRY: What a snaky little piece of work that was! Let us get down to policies. I do not want to talk about personalities, about whether you like me or not. All I am interested in is policies. We will compare your policies on health to ours. This is performance. This is performance, and the people of the ACT will be happy with it.

Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.

State Bank of New South Wales

MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, yesterday in question time Mr Stevenson asked me about the follow-up to some remarks he had made in an MPI discussion in relation to the State Bank. When I said that the matter was before the courts in New South Wales I should have added that I had faxed to the New South Wales Attorney-General copies of the Hansard of Mr Stevenson's remarks. He asked what action had been taken. I should have said that.

EMERGENCY SERVICES - REVIEW

Report and Supplementary Report

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 the "Report of the Review of Aspects of Australian Capital Territory Emergency Services" by Mr Bruce MacDonald - that is the report that was commissioned by this Assembly in its resolution of 13 May 1993 - together with a supplementary report by Mr MacDonald which looked at the response of the ACT to the Sydney bushfire emergency. I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the papers.

We discussed the matter this morning.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MAGISTRATES COURT (ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS) BILL

Exposure Draft and Papers

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (3.14): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present the exposure draft of the Magistrates Court (Enforcement of Judgments) Bill, an explanatory statement and the tabling speech, and I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the papers.

Madam Speaker, I will not go into the full tabling speech today because in due course we will be bringing in a final Bill. This implements the recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission in a 1987 report on the enforcement of judgments in the inferior courts. It seeks to develop a system which protects


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