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MR STEVENSON (9.34): Paragraph 34(2)(b) says:

the duties of the position involve performing in a dramatic performance or other entertainment ...

That does not include someone who has a business and wants to choose the staff. Let us say that it is a travel agent and, because the agency is particularly highlighting travel to the South Seas, or wherever, it wants to hire someone. Regardless of whether it was someone they had to hire, there is no need for authenticity, aesthetics would not come into it and tradition would not come into it. Under this provision the agency would not be allowed to do that. The point I make is that what we are doing is taking away from people the freedom to run their own lives, in many cases.

Question put:

That the clauses be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 15  NOES, 1 

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly
Mr Duby
Ms Follett
Mrs Grassby
Mr Humphries
Mr Jensen
Mr Kaine
Dr Kinloch
Ms Maher
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Proposed new clause 34A

MR COLLAERY (9.35): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 18, line 14, after clause 34, insert the following new clause:

Employment of Married Couple.

"34A. Nothing in Part III renders unlawful discrimination against a person on the grounds of marital status in relation to a job which is one of two to be held by a married couple.".

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