Page 3572 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 8 December 1992
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PAPER
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker I seek leave to present a petition from interstate petitioners.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I present a petition from eight interstate residents, requesting the Assembly to prohibit the availability of all X-rated material and the possession of child pornography.
MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Madam Speaker, I wish to advise the Assembly that the Chief Minister is travelling back to Canberra from the Council of Australian Governments meeting and will be absent from the Assembly today. If there are any questions members wish to raise with the Chief Minister, they can direct them to me.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Industrial Action - Use of Government Vehicles
MR KAINE: I would like to take up the Deputy Chief Minister's offer and address to him a question which I would otherwise have addressed to the Chief Minister. It fits into his industrial relations portfolio anyway. I note that on 1 December the Chief Minister acknowledged to me that it would have been inappropriate for ACT Government vehicles to have been used for the purpose of making a point in the protest that took place a few days before and that she had asked the administration to investigate and take disciplinary action, if necessary. Could the Minister tell us what disciplinary action, if any, has followed that undertaking from the Chief Minister?
MR BERRY: Mr Kaine wrote to the Chief Minister on 30 November in relation to this matter. Before I proceed any further, I am advised by my colleague Mr Connolly that the action that was taken by this Government was the same as was taken under the Alliance Government, which was headed by Mr Kaine. The Chief Minister wrote to Mr Kaine reiterating her support for the rights of all citizens to participate in peaceful protest against the industrial relations policies of the Victorian Government.
The Chief Minister also made it clear that it would have been inappropriate for ACT Government vehicles to have been used for the purpose of making a point in the protest. The agencies responsible for the vehicles identified in Mr Kaine's letter were asked to investigate the allegations as a matter of urgency. As Mr Kaine has acknowledged, any disciplinary action would be a public service matter and would be guided by the facts of each case. The Chief Minister has been advised that the individuals involved in the use of those ACTEW vehicles
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