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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 3 Hansard (8 March) . . Page.. 681 ..
Mr Hird: Mr Speaker, I am listening to this.
Mr Berry: Exploitation.
MR SPEAKER: Order, please!
Mr Berry: Reith's raiders.
MR SPEAKER: Order, please! Mr Berry, if you continue to interject I will have to deal with you.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I would be disinclined to do so if you were consistent with the regime that you - - -
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw that. Withdraw that.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. I withdraw that. I raise a point of order.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you.
Mr Berry: There was a question asked of the Chief Minister. Did she know what the level of trade unionism is?
MS CARNELL: And I am answering it.
MR SPEAKER: And she is answering it.
Mr Berry: Well, I would like to hear the numbers.
MS CARNELL: I have been up for 30 seconds. Your point of order just took as long as I have been answering.
MR SPEAKER: If you stop interjecting she will have a chance to give you the numbers.
Mr Hird: He is reflecting on the chair anyway.
Mr Wood: She has about six pages there, for heaven's sake.
MR SPEAKER: Well, she will not be using all those, I can tell you.
MS CARNELL
: Mr Speaker, these changes were introduced not only to suit employers but also to suit employees. I am sure that many women in the workplace would agree that flexible working conditions, particularly on International Women's Day, are very important. So, Mr Speaker, as workplaces change you could naturally expect that organisations such as unions, which are designed to service their members' needs, would
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