Page 1082 - Week 04 - Thursday, 1 April 1993
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MR STEVENSON: I will make a note of that. What we had on the 23rd was a most immoderate and invective assault by Mr Connolly against organisations that, I grant, I do not know a great deal about; but, looking at the record of Mr Williams and the organisations, they appear to be very hardworking and concerned community groups.
Mr Moore suggests that I see things in black and white. When it comes to the law I must admit that in most cases I do. It is the judges who have the right to interpret the law or to interpret the severity of the law. If a Minister stands in this house and misrepresents what he earlier stated in a written document, and if that is acceptable to other people because they do it all the time, then I must disagree and disagree strongly. Not once during what must be called a tirade, a tactic Mr Connolly quite often uses when he disagrees with what anybody else is saying - I have not said it previously, but in Mr Connolly's tirade he painted a very black picture about that group - did he tell the truth of what he put in the letter or what was in the letter of invitation to him. I would like to speak on many more matters, such as the suggestion that they would move to destroy the entire system. The letter said that they did not want to do that, but because of the discrimination against men that is the viewpoint that they have.
Question resolved in the negative.
VIOLENCE - NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Progress Report
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): For the information of members, I present the Government's progress report on the implementation of the National Committee on Violence recommendations, and I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Ms Szuty) adjourned.
DEPARTMENTAL ACCIDENT STATISTICS
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): Madam Speaker, I table an answer to a question which Ms Szuty raised, I think yesterday, in relation to occupational health and safety matters.
AGE DISCRIMINATION
Paper
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (4.17): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present a discussion paper on the issues and options for age discrimination law in the ACT, which includes an exposure draft of the legislation, and I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
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