Page 3707 - Week 12 - Thursday, 13 October 1994
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In conclusion, Madam Speaker, I would like to reiterate my support for the comments made by Mr Humphries, the chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, in relation to this Bill. I trust that the Government will carefully consider the committee's report and the issues raised and will proceed to prepare another Bill or extensive amendments to this Bill which can be considered by the Assembly before the end of the year.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
DISCHARGE OF ORDER OF THE DAY
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Heritage and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (6.36): Madam Speaker, in accordance with standing order 152, I move:
That order of the day No. 1, Executive business, relating to the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration and Regulation of Providers) Bill 1993, be discharged from the notice paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS - HOBART MEETING
Ministerial Statement and Paper
[COGNATE STATEMENT AND PAPER:
COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS - DARWIN MEETING]
Debate resumed from 22 September 1994, on motion by Ms Follett:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
MADAM SPEAKER: I remind members that we have previously resolved to debate this order of the day concurrently with the motion relating to the Council of Australian Governments fourth meeting. In debating order of the day No. 2, members may also wish to address their remarks to order of the day No. 3.
MR KAINE (6.37): Madam Speaker, I will be brief, given the lateness of the hour. On reading the Chief Minister's reports on the last two meetings of the Council of Australian Governments, one gets the impression that this is an organisation that has lost the plot. It does not seem to understand what it is there for, and it is not going anywhere. The original purpose of this organisation, which started off as the Special Premiers Conference, was to fix the fiscal imbalance between the States and the Territories on the one hand and the Commonwealth on the other. It flowed from the fact that the ordinary Premiers Conferences were conducted in a way that was totally unsatisfactory to the Premiers and the Chief Ministers of the States and Territories. Bob Hawke was finally compelled to bring together a Special Premiers Conference to deal with this problem as to how it was going to be done.
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