Page 2410 - Week 09 - Thursday, 17 September 1992
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Mr Moore: You were driving that along.
MR LAMONT: "Driving it along" is probably an appropriate way of describing it. Thank you once again. I have only 56 seconds left and I would like to be able to finish. The professional driving instructors legislation is an appropriate reform within the Territory. I would also draw members' attention to the creation of the Transport Industry Training Council in the ACT, which I believe will see some of the most significant reforms in training for professional drivers in the ACT. That council is supported by various agencies of this administration, as it was supported by those same agencies under previous administrations. I wish particularly to place that on the record. The professional driving instructors legislation, I believe, will be of great assistance to professional driving and, indeed, industry generally in the ACT. I commend the Government for announcing that it will bring forward all of these pieces of legislation that I have addressed this morning.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Your time has expired.
Mr Lamont: I will take a short extension, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: I do not think it is being granted, Mr Lamont.
MRS GRASSBY (11.49): I find this fascinating. I have just done some additions and I did them in a hurry. They relate to the last Assembly. Mr Humphries, who, of course, is not here, bleats about what is not done. I would like to remind him that he was in charge of a lot of legislation last year. They put up 85 Bills. In the time that we were in government we put up 126. Of course, 38 were not passed because the new Assembly was formed. Look at what is now before the house. Look at the number of Bills that have been put up and passed in the short time that we have been here. There are pages of them, Madam Speaker. I do not want to waste time by going through them. There are 28 on one page, 30 on another page, and 19 on another page. Look at what has been done and look at the proposed legislation in the paper that was given to all members. Look at what is to be put before the house by the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister.
I do not really need to go through these Bills, because Ms Ellis has named them. I am not going to waste the time of the Assembly. Mr Lamont has been on his feet, naming those Bills and going into great detail about them. He is very happy about them. You can see that the Labor Party has done a lot of hard work. Of course, Mr Moore has put a few Bills before the house, and Mrs Carnell has put one or two Bills before the house. We have not really seen very much from the Opposition in the way of private members Bills. We saw nothing from them in the way of MPIs until they were embarrassed into it by our putting up more MPIs. They are starting to do that now.
The work that the Government has put to the house in a very short time is quite incredible. I do not think there is another house in Australia that would have had such an amount of work put before it. It seems to me as though Mr Humphries has nothing else to talk about so he thought he would get up and bleat about the Government's work. He is desperate to talk about something.
Mr Cornwell: The pot calling the kettle black.
Mr De Domenico: Let her go. She has 14 minutes.
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