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WORKERS' COMPENSATION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS)
BILL 1991
MR BERRY (Minister for Health and Minister for Sport) (10.37): I present the Workers' Compensation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, this Bill is a follow-up to the Workers' Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1991, which I introduced earlier. The majority of the amendments covered by this Bill are designed to make other Territory Acts consistent with amendments introduced in that Bill. I therefore commend the Bill to the Assembly and present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Collaery) adjourned.
OZONE PROTECTION BILL 1991
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (10.38): Mr Speaker, I present the Ozone Protection Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Science has helped to develop a range of new chemicals which improve our everyday life. Science also allows us to monitor the unanticipated effects of these new substances. One such range is a group of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons and halons. I shall refer to them collectively as CFCs.
Mr Kaine: They are the greenhouse gases.
MR WOOD: Thank you, yes. In the case of CFCs, science created substances that are very stable and do not react with other chemicals. Industry and consumers found uses for these chemicals in many ways but, when used, the chemicals became waste and were allowed to escape. These waste chemicals mixed with the atmosphere. They are increasing because they are so stable.
Science has now been able to demonstrate through satellite technology and sophisticated ground based monitoring that the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere is thinning significantly. Science is also able to show us graphically, through coloured pictures we can all interpret, that the hole in the ozone layer, centred over Antarctica in spring, is progressively growing. A similar hole may be developing over the Arctic region.
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