Page 2293 - Week 08 - Friday, 21 June 1991
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They are varied and many, including public corruption legislation, the planning Bill, as Mr Kaine mentioned, the guardianship, community advocate, associations incorporation and discrimination Bills, and many others. There is a bail Bill, in which it has been necessary to set parameters for the granting of bail not related to the monetary capacity of those before the court. There are wills reform and adoption reform Bills. They are all there waiting to be introduced by the Follett Government, and I notice that she has been generous enough to acknowledge that case. Some of them, like the adoption and bail Bills, were started during the Follett era and, in both of those instances, before the Follett era; but I believe that this Government will give credit where it is due, and I trust that that will occur.
Mr Speaker, Ms Follett took time out to make an aside about my non-consultative nature and, by inference, that of the Rally. In relation to the events that have recently transpired, the Government has made it absolutely clear on the public record that it abstained from the issue of Leader of the Opposition. For us to have consulted with the Chief Minister on that issue, in my view, would have breached the clear indications received from the Labor Party and would have constituted a connivance that would really have brought this Assembly into disrepute.
Mr Berry: You will not get out of your treachery. Do not talk to me about that.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Berry can act aggrieved, but the fact is that he is saved from any of the odium that would have attached to a connivance in that regard. I believe that it is ungenerous of both him and Ms Follett to make those comments about us when we are pursuing an announced, clearly enunciated and clearly stated electoral reform aim. There is nothing in the back cupboard; it was put straight out.
Mr Speaker, Ms Follett's general overview is a precursor, I hope, to more specialised and detailed comments on some of the issues. She may well have a difficult budget situation; but, when we discuss the rates Bill that is coming up, I will have some further comments to make regarding the bullet that she must bite in relation to the size of the Public Service, and particularly the issues that were put by me to the recent ACTCOSS budget conference. I said there that a prevailing social justice counterbalance is required from the public sector unions particularly.
What is the higher justice? Is it to maintain double income earners in all situations and the size of the Senior Executive Service, or to maintain those out there living in poverty and without jobs, particularly the youth in our
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