Page 1158 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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Mr Berry: Madam Speaker, a pairing has been arranged involving Mrs Carnell and Mr Wood.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (1.28): Madam Speaker, I move the Government amendment c. It is on the Government's supplementary amendment sheet D, the pink sheet, and it reads as follows:
c. Page 80, line 1, proposed new subsection 195(1), after the definition of "independent MLA" insert the following definition:
"'non-party group' means a group of non-party candidates whose names are grouped on a ballot paper by virtue of subsection 109(2);".
The purpose of this amendment is to pick up a previous amendment from the Opposition concerning non-party groups. It is to insert, after the definition of "independent MLA", a definition of what a non-party group is.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (1.28): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to move amendments Nos 56, 70, 72 and 73 together. They all have the same purpose.
Leave not granted.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I move Government amendment No. 56, which reads as follows:
56. Page 81, line 19, proposed new subsection 198(2), (definition of "disclosure day", paragraph (a)), omit "5", substitute "4".
This is a simple amendment to reflect the reduction in the term of the Assembly, on which the Assembly has already voted, from four years to three years. I foreshadow now that amendments Nos 70, 72 and 73 are identical.
MR HUMPHRIES (1.30): My party does not oppose these amendments. They reduce the accounting period from five years to four years, rather than the term of the Assembly from four years to three years. It is as a consequence of that, but it is slightly different, with respect, from what the Chief Minister said.
Madam Speaker, I want to make a brief comment about these provisions on the financial reporting of election campaigns. As I indicated before, I consider the questions of funding and disclosure to be different. The Liberal Party does have a concern about the nature of these reporting provisions in general. The requirements here are, in some respects, significantly different from the provisions which apply at the Commonwealth level for the Australian Electoral Commission's own reporting requirements in the
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