Page 4108 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019

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MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong) (11.41): The ACT Greens will not be supporting Mr Wall’s amendments to the bill today. There are a couple, and I will speak to them all now, for the sake of time. The bill as it stands increases the opportunity for renewal of the council and associated positions. We think it is important to balance renewal with ongoing expert knowledge and experience. We are concerned that the amendments may inadvertently make it harder to appoint suitably qualified leaders and representatives from across the sector.

The accountability and renewal practices in the government’s bill offer a fair process to ensure thorough and effective representation from industry, employers, peak organisations, unions, workers and other stakeholders in this space. The amendment to have an Assembly committee agree to the appointment of the commissioner is not, we believe, in line with the Legislation Act and would be inconsistent with other like appointments.

Increasing the independence and transparency of WorkSafe ACT and its role is the purpose of this bill. We believe there are suitable measures outlined in the bill as presented to ensure transparency and accountability of the recruitment processes and we believe that the amendments proposed by Mr Wall add an unnecessary administrative burden and do not positively add to the processes that have been put in place.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 10

Noes 13

Miss C Burch

Mr Milligan

Ms Berry

Ms Orr

Mr Coe

Mr Parton

Ms J Burch

Mr Pettersson

Mrs Dunne

Mr Wall

Ms Cheyne

Mr Ramsay

Mr Hanson

Ms Cody

Mr Rattenbury

Mrs Kikkert

Mr Gentleman

Mr Steel

Ms Lawder

Mr Gupta

Ms Stephen-Smith

Ms Lee

Ms Le Couteur

Question resolved in the negative.

Amendment negatived.

Clause 13 agreed to.

Clauses 14 to 21, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 22.

MR WALL (Brindabella) (11.48), by leave: I move amendments Nos 2 and 3 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 4172]. The first one—and

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