Page 1405 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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That is what we have been long calling for. This is the first I have heard of wide consultation. Indeed, the criticism of the Law Society today was made on the basis of a lack of consultation.
Mr Collaery now is announcing to this Assembly that before any concrete proposal is developed there will be full consultation. We welcome his statement. I have said in public statements before entering this house that the Labor Party thought there may well be a basis of some good idea in Mr Collaery's announcement but that we wanted full consultation with the profession and the community. The Attorney is announcing that that will now be the way to progress this matter, and we welcome it. This, today, is the first we have heard of full consultation. We hope that Mr Collaery's announcement today will signal a return to the open and consultative approach that this party adopted when in government and that the consultation to which Mr Collaery is referring will not be similar to the consultation which Mr Duby has complied with on the Ainslie tip issue.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): We have seen a boomerang and now we see a trump today, Mr Speaker. I table the Attorney-General's announcement, dated 19 April 1990, with Mr Curtis's terms of reference attached, which was fully distributed to the media and our parliamentary colleagues on 19 April. I present:
Media statement by ACT Alliance Government, dated 19 April 1990, together with a consultants brief.
Mr Moore: It is probably something entirely different. Don't bother. It's something entirely different. It won't be what you say it is. You just table anything.
MR COLLAERY: As well, I table the following documents, the speeches of the Chief Justice to which I referred:
Extracts from speeches made by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the ACT to -
Launch Law Week 1990;
Newly admitted practitioners, dated 27 April 1990.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I am not sure whether you heard it, but Mr Moore was implying that Mr Collaery was tabling anything, not the document that he said he was tabling.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation, Mr Jensen, but I believe the documents have been presented as Mr Collaery promised.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, in the event that Mr Moore's comments, which I did not hear, are in the record, I ask that he withdraw the imputation that I would table a false document.
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