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Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
PROCEEDS OF CRIME (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS)
BILL 1991
Consideration resumed from 5 December 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
CREDIT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Debate resumed from 21 November 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR COLLAERY (6.09): As welcome to me as the prospect of class actions in this Territory is, I felt a wry sense of humour when I saw emblazoned in the Canberra Times, with a photograph of the Attorney, the words: "Class action has arrived". I will never blame the actions of a subeditor for putting a headline over any of my colleagues in this house. I would not even visit that on anyone in this chamber. But that headline caught my eye, and then I read into the article and I suddenly realised that what was being referred to was indeed the Bill that Mr Connolly introduced around that time in this house.
I share his optimism. It was a good flagwaving exercise. I can imagine all of those federations of sellers of industrial products zeroing in on that headline, and I imagine that it has been clipped and copied throughout the country, because the prospect of consumer class actions, of course, terrifies a certain element of this community.
No doubt, Mr Connolly, in his hopefully long and distinguished career, will play a role in the prosecution of consumer class actions.
Mr Stefaniak: I would not mind shortening his career.
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