Page 2606 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994
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Mr Humphries: So they will lie about their name but not about whom they work for?
MR CONNOLLY: Police advise me that they can sometimes tell. One presumes that an experienced police officer has a bit of an idea of when somebody is fibbing, and when there is a hesitancy in relation to this question they are perhaps more suspicious. The provision of the employer's details is absolutely voluntary. It is not a requirement of the Motor Traffic Act and drivers are free not to give those details.
I can also assure the Assembly that the very strict provisions of the Privacy Act which apply to the Australian Federal Police would mean that, if the police were to pass on such details to an employer - and I can understand that a citizen may be concerned that their employer may be notified - that would be a very serious matter indeed. Police do take breaches of the Privacy Act very seriously. In fact, I think there was recently a newspaper report of a prosecution where a person employed by the police had passed on not this type of information but other information. So it would be taken very seriously indeed if such information were passed to an employer.
PUBLIC SECTOR - STANDING COMMITTEE
Membership
MR HUMPHRIES (3.05): Madam Speaker, pursuant to standing order 223, I move:
That Mrs Carnell be discharged from the Standing Committee on the Public Sector, and that Mr Kaine be appointed in her place.
Apparently, there was a mistake in the printing of the names yesterday and Mrs Carnell was placed on that committee in error.
MADAM SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Carnell nominated Mr Kaine; so it was done in error.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND TREASURER'S ADVANCE
Papers
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.06): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present the statement of expenditure from the Treasurer's Advance, pursuant to subsection 47(2) of the Audit Act 1989, for the year ended 30 June 1994; the statement on variations to budget appropriations for the year ended 30 June 1994; and the Treasurer's quarterly financial statement for the period 1 April to 30 June 1994. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
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