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MR SPEAKER: I would like to thank the Assembly for its direction in this matter.
RATES AND LAND RENT (RELIEF) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Detail Stage
Consideration resumed.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (12.08): I will resume. I was in the process of demolishing this dingbat's argument. I think that has been effectively done. The proposals that he put would be socially inequitable. I welcome the support generally of other members of the house in the passing of this Bill, and I ask that the Bill be agreed to.
Bill as a whole agreed to.
Bill agreed to.
BUILDING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Debate resumed from 18 April 1991, on motion by Mr Duby:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MRS GRASSBY (12.09): Mr Speaker, I rise in support of this Bill, and why would I not? After all, I went through some of the papers and found that it was exactly the same Bill that we were just about to put into the house before the coup. But I would like to point out that the person who first drew the attention of the party to this was Tony Robertson. At the time when legionnaires' disease was breaking out over Wollongong, it was brought to our attention that we should be doing something about it here in Canberra, because there are so many office buildings which rely on air-conditioners to take air into and out of the building. So I pay homage to one of my comrades, Mr Tony Robertson, for the fact that he brought this to our attention. As I say, it was our Bill, but I am glad to see that the Government now has brought it into the house.
The Bill gives the building controller the power to authorise inspections on buildings for legionella bacteria, and it is very important that this be done. As I said before, we live in a city where there is an enormous number of office workers working in buildings and, if the air-conditioners are not kept free of legionella bacteria, we
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