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Tuesday, 8 September 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER (Ms McRae) took the chair at 2.30 pm and read the prayer.
PAPERS
MR HUMPHRIES: I seek leave to present a petition from interstate petitioners.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I thank the Assembly. I present a petition from 811 interstate residents requesting that the Assembly prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
MR STEVENSON: I seek leave to present a petition from interstate.
Leave granted.
MR STEVENSON: Madam Speaker, I present a petition from 81 interstate residents requesting that the Assembly prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Government Service - Industrial Relations Initiatives
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to Mr Berry, the Minister for Industrial Relations. I refer to a recommendation some little time ago now, from the Prime Minister to the Chief Minister, which suggested that we should be establishing our own public service. The Prime Minister has picked up my longstanding view on this matter. Given the Government's propensity for and alacrity in introducing legislation that has been first thought up by the Opposition, can Mr Berry tell us what specific industrial relations measures he has already initiated to prepare for the Government's forthcoming responsibility for its own public service? What stage has he reached with these initiatives?
MR BERRY: It is true that there has been an exchange of correspondence between the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister. The future of our public service in the ACT is something in which we have a great interest, and I am sure Mr Kaine does as well. Essentially, the conditions which will be developed in relation to that matter will be the subject of detailed consultation with the unions. Of course, this will require detailed consultation as well with the Commonwealth. The process of consultation will be one for the Government to deal with. Of course, we will maintain our usual close relationship with the trade union movement to ensure that there is not a donnybrook about the development of an ACT public service. Essentially, it boils down to the ACT Government reaching an appropriate arrangement with the Federal Government, and involving the unions in a consultative process which results, at the end of the day, in our being - - -
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