Page 3834 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 16 October 1991
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Mr Speaker, activities nationally and in the ACT region include a modest luncheon at Parliament House, hosted by the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, the Honourable Simon Crean; the promotional materials distributed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and planned activities by the University of Canberra and schools in the ACT region.
To the relatively affluent community of Canberra, World Food Day should be a reminder that hundreds of millions of fellow human beings, despite their best efforts, do not have enough to eat. It should be a reminder that these people desperately need help, not in the form of welfare but in ways that will make them less vulnerable, better able to make the most of available natural and human resources, more productive and, of course, more self-reliant.
It should be a reminder that hunger is not just a local problem but one of global proportions. Therefore, it also should be a reminder that public support for such efforts is essential if they are to continue, expand and improve. I am sure that you will join me in supporting World Food Day activities and the very important message that it has for us all.
LAW REVIEW PROGRAM
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services): I seek leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on the law review program and table a report entitled "Legislation Review".
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, I apologise to the extent that the system broke down and full notice had not been given. It is certainly our intention to do that always on these matters.
The report of the ACT law review program, "Legislation Review", is presently being circulated to members. This is a very simple proposal which, when it was first introduced last year by the Alliance Government, with the support of Labor, was astounding in its simplicity. Mr Justice Asche once said of a law reform proposal:
Because such a solution is so obvious, so sensible and so logical, it must necessarily be impossible. We need spend no further time on it.
Notwithstanding that statement, I believe that it is essential for us to look at simple, basic things in law review, and the style, format and accessibility of legislation is one such issue.
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