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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1144 ..
[COGNATE MOTIONS:
Debate resumed.
MR SPEAKER: I remind members that the Assembly has agreed to consider this motion concurrently with notices Nos 4 and 5 on the notice paper in the names of Mr Hargreaves and Ms Tucker, respectively, dealing with Subordinate Law 2000 No. 11, Road Transport (Offences) Regulations 2000, and Subordinate Law 2000 No. 10 of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Regulations 2000.
MR OSBORNE (3.25): Mr Speaker, I think that the issues raised by Mr Hargreaves and Ms Tucker are both worthy issues and ones that should be debated. As a cyclist, but not quite as regular as I was - - -
Mr Quinlan: It must be a big bike.
MR OSBORNE: It is a big bike, Mr Speaker. I can understand and appreciate what Ms Tucker is attempting to do, but the dilemma for me and the question that I need to ask myself is whether I support being a part of the national road rules. At this point, I have to admit to being on the side of the Government in that I think that, if you have national road rules, you should keep them as national road rules and not tinker with them at the edges. I just had a discussion outside with Mr Hargreaves and Mr Rugendyke. I understand that Mr Rugendyke will be supporting a small part of Mr Hargreaves' motion for disallowance. I think that it is quite sensible. We have passed the national road rules. I am sure that all of us in here could have gone through the whole of the legislation and pulled out little bits that we did not like, but that would have been pointless. I will be siding with the Government on these two issues because, as I have said, we have national road rules and it would be silly to tinker with them at the edges. I think that Mr Hargreaves has raised a valid point, as has Ms Tucker, but the issue of the road rules being national has been enough to sway me to support the Government, Mr Speaker.
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