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MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (5.55): Mr Deputy Speaker, I want briefly to express my congratulations to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee. In the end we have a good result. I am very satisfied with it. The committee has done well. It has drawn on a broad consensus, over a number of years now, on the outcome of the casino premium. I believe that the earlier work, the work of the Cultural Council and the views of the citizens generally on what they want in cultural matters are very well reflected in the committee's report and the Government's decision.
MR DE DOMENICO (5.56): I would like to reiterate the comments made by the committee chairman, Mr Lamont. I am also delighted that the Government has taken on board all the recommendations of the committee. As I said this morning, it is one area that is testimony to the way that people of all political persuasions can come together and make the same decision.
Mr Lamont: Good politics.
MR DE DOMENICO: It is good politics, as Mr Lamont said, and I am happy to endorse the Chief Minister's ministerial statement.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: I present report No. 22 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 22 contains the committee's comments on two Bills, and I commend the report to the Assembly.
EVIDENCE (CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (5.57), by leave: Mr Deputy Speaker, I present the Evidence (Closed-Circuit Television) (Amendment) Bill 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Members will notice that there is no circulated presentation speech for this Bill. This Bill was prepared at very short notice this morning. Opposition members and independent members indicated to me that they would not be prepared to support the Evidence Bill before the Assembly which covered, amongst other things, the issue of the uncorroborated evidence of persons under the age of 14.
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