Page 5640 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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MR KAINE: I do not know how it slipped in, but that was what you told me that your amendment was going to be. This one is totally different and it goes way beyond what was originally envisaged in the original amendment. Analysing what is now before the Assembly as an amendment, it is simply a matter of notifying and advising people of what has happened.
If Mr Jensen were prepared to put forward an amendment which merely said that upon granting a lease that lease and agreed collateral and all that sort of stuff should be tabled in the Assembly within five sitting days, I would go with it. That ought to be sufficient. If it is tabled in the house it becomes public property and anybody that knows about it can find out. I do not know why we want to go into all this business of making it available for inspection and copying. It is just right over the top.
Mr Jensen: We will go with that.
MR KAINE: I suppose I can word an amendment to Mr Jensen's amendment, but it would be better if Mr Jensen reduced it to the simple statement that these documents shall be laid before the Assembly within five sitting days. If he does that, I will support him; otherwise, I will not.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (12.27): I note what Mr Kaine says. I think it is a sensible way to go. It is useful to have it tabled in the Assembly. If I keep talking for another 30 seconds, the appropriate amendment will be available. I certainly agree that there is too much here. We do not have to go advertising in newspapers and the like. It is more than we need.
MR JENSEN (12.28): Mr Deputy Speaker, will it be possible for me to formally remove two of the proposed new subclauses in my amendment and just leave (10C) and renumber it (10A)?
Mr Berry: Pull them all out. Are they really important?
MR JENSEN: Yes, they are. One of them is, anyway.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: We have an amendment coming, anyway, Mr Jensen.
Mr Moore: That is sensible. We will renumber (10C) to be (10A). That is easy.
MR JENSEN: Yes.
Mr Kaine: It needs to be reworded. It is not as simple as that.
MR JENSEN: Mr Deputy Speaker, can I amend my amendment?
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