Page 4367 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 8 December 1993
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Mr Connolly: If this is the sort of legislation they are putting forward, I can see why.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, indeed. Perhaps that is true and perhaps that is a good reason to suggest that the Government of Queensland is also going to go down the same path, because I understand that the Queensland Labor Government has also suggested making it illegal to carry graffiti implements.
Mr Lamont: Arrest them for their thumbs.
MR HUMPHRIES: If you were in Queensland, Mr Lamont, you would be saying that; that is for sure. If you were a member of the Queensland Labor Party you would probably be saying that. But I think that we need a slightly more considered approach here. Ms Szuty's approach is the carrot approach rather than the stick approach, and I think it is worth attempting. Perhaps it would be an abject failure; in which case we can try something else. But for the time being I think it is worth our examining that option. Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to move together the amendments which have been circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask for a bit of quiet.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Could we have a little bit of quiet, please. Just whisper.
Mr Lamont: I take exception to that. I do not suffer from the same complaint that Mr Humphries has been guilty of for the last four years, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
MR HUMPHRIES: I move the following amendments:
Paragraph (1), omit all words before "the use of", substitute "the Assembly supports a programme to facilitate".
Paragraph (2), omit "extensive".
The Government is trying to make some capital, and no doubt will do so outside this place, on the basis that this is going to cost us money. Goodness me, we cannot afford to spend any money! I have to say that I would expect that kind of tactic. I would also expect that some money does need to be spent on this program. (Extension of time granted) I believe that those amendments will ensure that the Government is not able to argue in the broader community that there is a cost to government. Rather, the motion will state that the Assembly merely supports this program, a program which I believe would be more appropriately funded from both the community and the private sector. I see both the community in general and the private sector in particular as having an important role in this. I believe that Ms Szuty has made reference to the possibility of organisations such as paint companies and others getting involved in backing this kind of concept. I have no doubt that they would, and the result would be a program which costs the Government very little.
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