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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (29 March) . . Page.. 1058 ..
MR OSBORNE (continuing):
There are some comments in relation to I think the three government contracts pieces of legislation. I do not have a copy of the report in front of me, Mr Speaker, but from memory I think it may have been only a minor thing for Mr Moore to look at.
Mr Moore: He did all three together, Paul, remember? So it was hard to draw out which one they were applying to.
MR OSBORNE: That is right, yes. Finally, Mr Speaker, the Interpretation Amendment Bill also does have some issues which the appropriate Minister should have a look at. I would just like to thank Mr Hargreaves for filling in for me at Darwin. I think he is doing a great job in relation to scrutiny of national legislation. I will be encouraging him to continue to attend those meetings, as they do have the potential to put some members to sleep, Mr Speaker, but I commend the report to the Assembly.
MS TUCKER (4.00): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) agree that the ACT community should have legislative control over the structure of their Legislative Assembly;
(2) agree that the size of the Assembly should change in proportion to changes in the population of electors in the ACT;
(3) agree that a ratio of 1 Member per 10,000 electors, as recommended in the Pettit Review of Governance of the ACT, is an appropriate ratio of Members of the Assembly to the number of electors;
(4) agree that the Assembly should continue to have an odd number of Members; and
(5) affirming the principles of the proportional representation (Hare-Clark) electoral system laid out in section 4 of the Proportional Representation (Hare-Clark) Entrenchment Act 1994;
requests the Chief Minister to -
(1) undertake discussions with the Commonwealth Minister for Territories to achieve -
(a) amendments to the Australian Capital Territory (Self- Government) Act 1988 to devolve to the Assembly the power to determine the number of Members, or if this is not possible;
(b) a regulation under section 8 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self Government) Act 1988 to fix a different number of Members;
with the aim of fixing the number of Members to be elected in the first election after 2001 as the largest odd number that is less than the number of enrolled electors at the time of the 2001 election divided by 10,000.
(2) prepare an exposure draft of amendments to the Electoral Act 1992 to establish a process for determining the number of electorates and the number of Members per electorate for an enlarged Assembly, for consideration by the Assembly.
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