Page 1642 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 30 April 1991
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MR COLLAERY: A few months ago I chaired the consumer affairs Ministers meeting over at a hotel across town - the name of which I forget; it was not memorable - and a Victorian Minister was the fly in the ointment in our resolving uniform credit legislation. Yet he is up in the rating; he is up with the four Labor Ministers who got the top rating. So, I say that, because I think it is pretty poor that they did not have sufficient antennae to know where the two blockages were on two of the major consumer affairs reforms that we seek in this country: Firstly, uniform trade measurements, right down to beer glass measurements - and they vary in discos and other parlours around the country; and, secondly, the need for uniform credit legislation on interest and all finance deals, particularly those that youngsters take out on borrowing cars.
They left out all the legislation that we have done recently; the register of interest in motor vehicles that I have done with my colleague Mr Duby - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order: I think the question requires a concise answer. It is getting a bit long, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation, Mr Berry. Mr Collaery, would you draw your answer to a close?
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the final comment that I want to make is that we established the Consumer Advisory Committee in this town, we put an environmental marketing spokesperson on it, and we have taken a number of unique initiatives in the Territory with the support of the Opposition. I very much regret that release last night from this body in Marrickville. What I am going to do as consumer affairs Minister is to find out who they are, what is behind them, how they assess their product, and why their marketing strategy is as it is.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I request that any further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Planning Legislation
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I would like to answer a question that I took on notice on 17 April from Mr Connolly. Mr Connolly asked a question that had to do with our consolidated Planning Bill. He prefaced his question by saying that he understood that I had at last found a law firm prepared to say that the Bill is acceptable. Then he went on and said:
I ask: How much did the Government pay Dunhill, Madden and Butler for their report? Why was this firm chosen, what was the selection procedure, and what were the terms of reference for the review?
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