Page 875 - Week 03 - Thursday, 14 April 1994
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MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I know that Mr Humphries feels stung by my comments, but the fact is that he has been caught out perpetrating a fraudulent amendment, when he has said all along that he would be honouring the terms of the referendum options description sheet. He has not.
Madam Speaker, I again thank members for their comments on the Bill. I realise that there is a very large number of proposed amendments. I would like to point out to Mr Kaine that some of the colour coded sheets which have been distributed refer to consequential amendments which may be required should any of Mr Humphries's amendments or other amendments succeed. The Government has proposed consequential and necessary further amendments, and that is why they are colour coded. Madam Speaker, I look forward to the detail stage debate on this Bill. I realise that it presents an enormous challenge for the Secretariat in ordering all of the proposed amendments, and it will present something of a challenge, I think, to all members to follow the process of debate. I thank members for their comments so far and I commend the Bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail Stage
Clause 1
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT
Daylight Saving
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (4.38): Madam Speaker, I move:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
I realise that I am closing the debate. Does anybody else wish to speak? No. I rise in the adjournment debate to mention very briefly the cause of daylight saving in the ACT. Madam Speaker, members might remember that some years ago the ACT was forced to curtail its daylight saving period by virtue of the fact that New South Wales had taken that action. It would be quite ludicrous, in my view, for the ACT and New South Wales to have different daylight saving periods.
Shortly before the Premiers Conference I received a letter from the Victorian Premier inviting my comment on the proposal that they were putting forward to extend the period of daylight saving. Needless to say, I would have been delighted to support such an extension because it would have put the Territory back to where we were before.
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