Page 1711 - Week 05 - Thursday, 8 May 2008
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electoral funding laws by the federal government. We believe that, with the exception of the change in relation to the threshold for disclosure from $1,500 to $1,000, other changes should await the more detailed discussions that will occur at a national level.
For the information of members, the government has been approached by the commonwealth seeking the involvement of all ministers responsible for electoral law with the Special Minister of State, Senator Faulkner, and a meeting is to be convened by Senator Faulkner in the coming month to discuss national reform of electoral laws. I will be participating in that meeting on behalf of the territory. Subsequent to that national reform process, the government will be prepared to revisit the other existing provisions in relation to disclosure. That is the reason for the government’s opposition to this clause at this time.
Clause 34 negatived.
Clause 35.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (10.44): I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 1774 ].
Again, this amendment is one of a series of amendments intended to undo the various changes in the bill related to disclosure, for the same reasons I have just enunciated in relation to the previous clause.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 35, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 36.
MR STEFANIAK (Ginninderra) (10.45): I will be opposing the clause. It is consequential, Mr Speaker. The debate has been had; we have lost the debate.
DR FOSKEY (Molonglo) (10.45): I will be opposing this clause also.
Clause 36 agreed to.
Clause 37.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (10.46): I will be opposing this clause on behalf of the government—this is another in a range throughout the amendment process that undo the previously proposed disclosure provisions—consistent with the reasons I have outlined previously.
Clause 37 negatived.
Clause 38.
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