Page 3243 - Week 11 - Thursday, 12 September 1991
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I note Mr Collaery's comments about the difficult conditions which particularly those persons in the court complex who deal with domestic violence have to work in. I note again that he calls for the development of an ACT legal precinct. Well, I would like one too, and I would like the full bottle $50m proposal that was being kicked around; but we live in straitened times.
Imagine that we had a little adding machine that was ticking up Residents Rally promises. I read, I think, in one of the suburban give-away papers that the Residents Rally want a light rail to Woden and Tuggeranong; so there is a few hundred million dollars there. Then we are going to have the court complex at another $50m. Money, for this strange political organisation, just grows on trees. The Residents Rally approach seems to be: If you have a problem, throw a few million dollars at it.
Unfortunately, we just cannot go around throwing those vast sums of money at problems. We simply do not have those vast sums of money. I think it is unrealistic to go around making such grandiose statements. As I say, in two days we have clocked up some hundreds of millions of dollars of additional projects which the Rally would have us build, without ever saying how they would have us pay for it. Aside from the bricks and mortar, which are less than adequate, there is no doubt that the individuals who work in the magistrates courts - both the magistrates and the staff - do an excellent job, far superior to the bricks and mortar that they have to operate in. This amendment Bill, which provides a more appropriate nomenclature for those senior officers, is welcomed by the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
FILM CLASSIFICATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Debate resumed from 15 August 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
DR KINLOCH (11.51): This Bill is a useful and necessary tidy up Bill which will give the ACT Government the right to allow some films to be shown in the ACT without their having been classified by the Commonwealth censor. Mr Connolly effectively explained that in one paragraph of his presentation speech. It used to be that we just carried on whatever New South Wales did. We will now do that independently as the ACT.
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