Page 5024 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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and that it would not be necessary to draw attention to these matters.
However, I see that the Government is still continuing its bloody-minded approach. I would ask them, once again, to reconsider what has been said. It was certainly not my understanding that we would set a precedent tonight by going later than we had on any previous sitting of the Assembly.
Mr Jensen: It is all up to you, Michael.
MR MOORE: Mr Jensen interjects, "It is up to you, Michael". I say that it is far better that we still consider this legislation as deliberately as we can, even though, as Mr Connolly pointed out, we do not have full access to the facilities of the parliament at the moment. For example, the library has now closed. However, they continue to push on with it.
The particular concern I have is with clause 22(2). It is interesting to note that when I mentioned this concern today to one person they referred to it as, "Oh, you have the same philosophy as Chris Donohue". As we know, on many issues, of course, I do have similar philosophies to Chris Donohue. This would appear to be one. I believe that we have a reversal here in clause 22(2), which currently reads:
If, at the expiration of 6 sitting days after a Plan is laid before the Legislative Assembly, the Assembly has not passed a resolution rejecting the Plan, the Minister shall cause to be published in the Gazette a notice -
and so forth. I think that Chris Donohue was quite right if, in fact, he was quoted correctly - and I suspect that he was - in saying that this is reversed. What we should have is a situation that, if the Assembly has not passed a resolution adopting the plan, then the plan does not come into effect. In fact, this is something that the Assembly ought to have time to consider.
The matter we are dealing with here is that it can be the case that, the Government having put something to the Assembly, it can be allowed to lie. In effect, it can be ignored without the Assembly being forced to consider it. In such an important matter - and I know that this will be news to you, Mr Speaker - it is of concern to me that there is no appropriate appeals mechanism in this Bill.
Mr Duby: Are you concerned about that, Mr Moore?
MR MOORE: I am actually concerned about that issue. It would seem to me that we ought to have the approach of having a resolution to adopt the plan rather than having a provision saying, "Well, if you do not get around to it, then it becomes the plan". I can see that, in fact, that
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