Page 5023 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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or may not be satisfactory. There is no way that members have of really working out what to do in this situation. We are not sure. I am not sure whether the Australian is or is not published in several places or only in Sydney. It just raises the difficulty of important legislation being dealt with in a hurry and late at night.
Again, the Government's only response to these points that Mr Moore is raising is, "How did Mr Moore react to the similar provisions in the substantive Bill?". But, as we say, there is a difference. These are provisions that stand apart. Perhaps there is a need for additional caution. I would certainly like to take the opportunity to dissociate the Opposition from some of the rhetoric which has referred to this as a shoddy Bill. I do not think this is a shoddy Bill. I think there remains a point that, as the Bill stands alone, we do need to have some amendments to provide additional safeguards to the community because we are looking at a stand-alone planning Bill.
On this point of publication of a newspaper, I frankly do not know what the answer is. I do not know whether Mr Jensen is correct in his assertion that the Australian is not published in a number of cities and is, presumably, only published in Sydney. My recollection of that newspaper was that it listed publication addresses in each of the capital cities. Therefore, it may well be a newspaper published and circulating in the ACT. It is 11.30 at night. We cannot gain access to the library to check the point out. This is the dilemma of late night legislation in a rush.
MR MOORE (11.24): Mr Speaker, I think it is absolute nonsense for Mr Jensen to come in here and offer his legal opinion on this particular matter, particularly since I cited a specific case. I appreciate the support Mr Connolly provided on this. Of course, he is far more competent in matters of the law than Mr Jensen and I, or anybody else in this chamber sitting near Mr Jensen at the moment. Mr Speaker, I move:
Page 8, paragraph 21(a), line 36, omit "in a daily newspaper", substitute "in The Canberra Times".
Amendment negatived.
Clause agreed to.
Clause 22
MR MOORE (11.25): I would like to again emphasise and add to Mr Connolly's point about this matter being pushed through, and also to clarify my understanding of what was going to happen to these matters. The Whip indicated to me earlier this week that this matter would come up tonight, and that any matters that had not been dealt with by the Assembly that were on the notice paper for today would carry over till either Wednesday or Thursday. I expected that I would still have some time to deal with this Bill
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