Page 5029 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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Proposed new clause 52
MR MOORE (11.46): Mr Speaker, I move:
That the following new clause be added to the Bill after clause 51:
Cessation of operation of this Act
52. This Act, unless sooner repealed, shall cease to be in force following the last day of December 1991.
We have heard the Government confidently predicting and showing great jocularity when Mr Connolly - mind you, I have not seen some of the jocularity for a while; they are looking like they are half asleep - - -
Mr Duby: We are listening to you, for goodness sake. That is the main reason.
MR MOORE: Mr Duby, of course, finds it boring because, as far as he is concerned, this is not a particularly important matter and he would like to see it just pushed through. What we have is the opportunity for the Government to put its actions where its mouth is; but I suspect that, with the Alliance Government, most of its work is mouth work and very little of it has to do with coming up with the realities.
I think the logical time for a sunset clause to take effect would, of course, be in June or July. As the Alliance have indicated, they will be ready by then to go into the substantive legislation. Those of us who are not in the Alliance are not quite convinced that they will be able to do it in that time. Therefore, I am proposing that we actually double that time and give them a year in which to have this as the interim planning legislation. I point out to you again that there is no appeals mechanism in this interim legislation. It has been proposed, and we have been assured again and again, that it is simply an interim situation to get us out of a difficulty which has to do with the transition period.
If we accept that, then I think it is appropriate that we do put a sunset clause on it so that we do set a deadline. That is the very thing that we shortly dealt with before in an interjection from Mr Duby about deadlines. If you actually set deadlines you have an opportunity to get something. That is standard management practice. The Chief Minister likes to pride himself on being a competent manager. Here we have an opportunity to follow a standard management practice of setting deadlines, as well as his normal process of setting goals. Mr Speaker, I recommend this amendment to you and to members of the Assembly as an appropriate thing to do, and as a way of showing good faith about this legislation. Mr Speaker, I have made an attempt this evening to get all members to take a bipartisan approach to this legislation. It is really their last opportunity to show any good faith.
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