Page 2061 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 May 1991
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However, we are very happy to see this Bill come into the house, and we congratulate the Government on the fact that it has done so. We were beginning to fear that it would never see the light of day; that we would have to wait for the next Follett Labor Government in February for this Bill to be brought into the house.
Mr Humphries: February 2010, is it?
MRS GRASSBY: No, February 1992. However, it has seen the light of day, so I congratulate the Minister on this. We, as members of the Labor Party, feel that it is at least part of the policy platform that we will see brought into this house after the election in February 1992, which will return a Follett Labor Government.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Mr Connolly.
MR CONNOLLY (4.39): I am sorry, Mr Deputy Speaker; I was waiting for a government speaker, if they wished, to take the call. As Mrs Grassby indicated, the Labor Party is pleased to see this Bill finally come on for detailed debate. It in large measure now carries within it many of the points that were put before this Assembly in the Labor Party private member's Bill introduced back in August-September of last year. That Bill forced the pace on landlord and tenant reform in relation to a rental bond board. At the time there was a fairly flimsy government proposal, but we now see a government proposal that the Labor Opposition can, by and large, live with.
Mrs Grassby did indicate that there might be a couple of points of detail on which the Opposition differed with the Government, and I propose in my remarks this afternoon to go through them and perhaps get some views from the Attorney as to his attitude.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr Collaery and Mrs Grassby, perhaps if you could just have your conversation - - -
MR CONNOLLY: They might be talking about what I am talking about, which is expressing what the Opposition's concerns are; and if the Attorney hears what the Opposition's concerns are he might be able to adjourn consideration of this Bill.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Connolly, I could ask him to come back if it would help.
MR CONNOLLY: I am directing my comments to the Attorney, who is behind the pillar there. There are a number of specific concerns that we have. The first one relates to the basic issue of the condition report. The condition reports are a very important part of this mechanism. They were provided for in the Labor Bill but not in the original Alliance proposal.
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