Page 1604 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 17 May 1994

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ADJOURNMENT

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Lamont: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING FUND BILL 1994

[COGNATE BILL:

LONG SERVICE LEAVE (BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994]

Debate resumed.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Deputy Speaker, Ms Follett has often stood up in this house and said that the future of the ACT is based upon small business; that there will be no new jobs in the government sector and that we can look only to the private sector. How on earth can this Government believe that by putting extra tax imposts onto the private sector it will somehow achieve new jobs and this magically improved economy for the ACT? I fail to understand and, by the way, so does the Keating Government.

I would like to finish by quoting again from the Government's explanatory memorandum to this Bill. It states:

A primary objective of the scheme set out in this Bill is to satisfy the requirements for a recognised alternative training levy scheme under the Training Guarantee (Administration) Act 1990 of the Commonwealth.

I go on to quote from the white paper that the Commonwealth put out on 4 May. It says:

In the light of the commitment by industry to meet its training obligations over the past few years, the Government has decided to suspend the Training Guarantee for two years from 1 July 1994.

Later on it says:

Firms throughout Australia are investing in training and are far more aware of and committed to training since the introduction of the Training Guarantee.

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