Page 387 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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legislation. This important work has now begun, starting with a focus on child safety in our schools.
Madam Assistant Speaker, I want to acknowledge and thank a number of organisations and colleagues who have been engaged in the conversation leading to the development of this bill. I acknowledge and thank the Greens political party and the Canberra Liberals for their comments today on the bill as well as my own colleagues, Michael Pettersson, Mick Gentleman and Tara Cheyne, for their thoughtful comments about this bill and what it means for child safety in our schools. I want to acknowledge Coralie McAlister and the Education Directorate for all their work in developing this bill; the Australian Education Union, in particular Jacqui Agius and Patrick Judge, who provided valuable critical feedback during the development of this important bill; Anne Ellis and her team at TQI, including Michael Bateman and Jane Curnow; Ross Fox and the Catholic Education Office; and Andrew Wrigley of the Association of Independent Schools of the ACT.
I thank members for their support of this important legislation, and I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 11.42 am to 2.00 pm.
Ministerial arrangements
MR BARR: In the continued absence of Minister Fitzharris, questions in the health portfolio will be taken by Mr Rattenbury, in the transport portfolio by Minister Steel and in the higher education portfolio by Minister Stephen-Smith.
Questions without notice
Taxis—regulation
MR COE: My question is to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. It is specifically in relation to the fine contribution and significant investments made by Canberra’s taxi industry and its many owners. In September 2018, following the release of a government report titled Evaluation of the 2015 innovation reforms to the on-demand transport industry in the ACT, your government announced that it would release a further 142 plates to the taxi market. The value of existing perpetual plates is expected to fall to as low as $45,000, if, indeed, buyers can be found. This is down from well over $200,000 prior to the reforms. Chief Minister, given that the report that you commissioned clearly states that demand for taxi services has fallen, how can you justify releasing more than 100 plates to the market?
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