Page 1714 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 17 October 1989
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be a quick resolution of this very complex legislation - there are six Bills in all - but I would expect to have the legislation in this Assembly early next year and to have it passed at least in the first half of next year.
Community Consultation
MR KAINE: I would like to ask a question of the Chief Minister. With regard to the Government's commitment to community consultation, can she tell us how many meetings have taken place and where they have taken place since the first one - a very much touted one - on 21 June at the Northside Community Centre in Ainslie?
MS FOLLETT: I believe Mr Kaine is referring to a public meeting that was called by the Labor Party on the issue of community consultation. It was the first of a series, and the others will follow.
Remuneration Tribunal Submission
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is addressed to the Chief Minister. I refer to the comment she made on television after delivering her budget last month. She was referring on that occasion to submissions by parties in this Assembly to the Government on its submission, in turn, to the Remuneration Tribunal as it related to members' salaries. She said in part:
Most of the parties -
meaning the parties in this place -
did ask for a higher level of income than the Government had originally proposed, and I am looking for a compromise on those positions.
My question is this: given that "most of the parties" implies to me at least three parties in this place and given that the Liberal Party has consistently refrained from placing particular dollar values on members' remuneration in its submission to the Government, will the Chief Minister name the three parties she alleges asked for a higher level of income than the Government had originally proposed?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I do not have the detail of that matter with me at the moment but, if I could speak from my recollection of the submissions made by other parties, it is my distinct recollection that the Liberal Party, while acknowledging the logic of the Government's initial discussion paper, made quite clear in its submission on that discussion paper that it believed that the leaders of parties other than the Government or the Opposition should
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