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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (10 April) . . Page.. 916 ..

MS HORODNY: The auditor presumably would be sitting in the back seat for one lesson and would be observing the activities of the instructor. Ten per cent of these situations would be audited, but obviously the other 90 per cent would not be audited. That is a problem as well.

I talked about sexual harassment in my speech. Mr Whitecross said that sexual harassment would still occur and that what I am proposing would not eliminate that sexual harassment; but what we are talking about in the proposal that the Government is putting forward is that the power given to those instructors will be even greater than it is now.

Debate interrupted.

MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 5.00 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Humphries: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

Clause 9

Debate resumed.

MS HORODNY: There is obviously an important issue to consider, because if the driving instructors, with the power that they have now, have created in some instances a situation where the sort of sexual harassment that I have been told about occurs, then if the power given to those instructors is increased I would assume that the sort of sexual harassment that I have described here would increase as well. That is something that I do not think has been considered at all in this debate.

Mr Whitecross talked about choice. He said that people have a choice. Not everyone has a choice, Mr Whitecross. Not everyone has parents who can teach them. When I was learning to drive, for instance, I did not have a parent who could drive, so I had no choice. I had to go to an instructor, and a choice of instructors - - -

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