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comments as it thinks fit on all range of matters. It has necessarily the widest terms of reference in its area of any committee in this Assembly, and I think that the Chief Minister is moving this referral motion as a means of emphasising the task ahead of the PAC rather than conferring on it any further powers.

The Rally supports the motion moved by the Chief Minister and trusts, given the incredible workload that is now falling upon the 17 members of this Assembly, that under the chairmanship of Mr Kaine the Public Accounts Committee can move to those issues within a relatively short time.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (4.24): Mr Speaker, I move:

That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy for inquiry and report:

(1) Whether there are problems (significant or otherwise) of public behaviour in the ACT and in particular:

(a) public behaviour in and around shopping centres, bus interchanges and areas used for public entertainment;

(b) the nature, extent and seriousness of any problems of public behaviour; and

(2) The committee to consider all relevant methods by which such action could be taken, including, but not limited to, legal, social, economic, environmental design, deployment of Australian Federal Police and ACT Public Service personnel and the provision of services by Government and/or private agencies.

(3) The committee report by 30 September 1989.

Again, I will be brief because I believe that a number of the issues involved were canvassed in the debate this morning on the formation of a select committee to look at the proposed legislation for move-on powers.

However, I had debated whether to withdraw this reference to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, but in the end I decided not to, as I believe that the underlying problems that the legislation is intended to address will not be addressed by what is my understanding of the select committee's work. I therefore believe that there is a role for the Social Policy Committee to look more broadly at the whole issue of public behaviour and the problems to which that is apparently giving rise.

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