Page 1327 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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MR MOORE (11.52): I would just like to add a very few words, Mr Speaker, because I think that this is an excellent motion that could ensure that the sort of rhetoric that we heard yesterday and that we have seen in the paper does not influence this decision but actually looks at the facts, looks at the real costs, looks at the employment opportunities and comes up with an appropriate solution that respects the decision of the Supreme Court.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
DAY OF NEXT MEETING
Motion (by Mr Whalan) agreed to:
That the Assembly, at its rising, adjourn until Tuesday, 26 September 1989, unless the Speaker fixes an alternative day or hour of sitting on receipt of a request in writing from an absolute majority of members.
RATES AND LAND TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989
[COGNATE BILLS:
SEWERAGE RATES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989
WATER RATES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989]
Debate resumed from 27 July 1989, on motion by Ms Follett:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR SPEAKER: I understand that it is the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with orders of the day Nos. 2 and 3. There being no objection, that is the course that we will follow.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.54): Mr Speaker, we have three Bills here, the specific purpose of which is to enable the Government to collect rates in this current year. There are a couple of changes to the previous arrangements, and I think that they deserve some comment. Although we, on the Opposition side, are not opposed to the changes that are being made, I think that it needs to be brought to the attention of the Assembly and to the community at large that there are a couple of essential changes being made in the introduction of this legislation.
The first of those, Mr Speaker - and this will be of interest to those people who pay their rates on an instalment basis - is that, not this year but next year, the dates on which those payments become due will change. Instead of being paid in October, December, February and April, they will now be payable in August, November,
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