Page 3345 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 September 1994
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ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed.
MR LAMONT: Progress towards compliance in this important area will depend on the ACT adopting a series of national OH and S Commission standards, which are expected to be incorporated into ACT regulations over the next six months. In addition to occupational health and safety conventions, the ACT has also been able to advise other States, the Northern Territory and the Commonwealth that it can comply with several human rights conventions covering minimum age for work, rural workers organisations, migrant workers, labour relations in the public sector and collective bargaining. In many instances, the ACT is leading the way amongst the States.
Madam Speaker, the ACT has a proud record of achievement in responding to our national responsibilities towards the ILO. In this year of its seventy-fifth anniversary, the Labor Government pledges to continue to remain responsive to the principles and programs of the ILO, in the interests of the ACT work force. In doing so, we are also positioning the ACT to take advantage of economic opportunities in the local region, across the nation and among our neighbours in the Asian and Pacific regions. We are also furthering the social justice objectives of this Government.
Madam Speaker, I am extremely pleased to have been able to make this statement to the Assembly today, because I believe, when we look around the world at the great social change that has occurred since the end of the First and Second World Wars, that it has principally been the charters of the International Labour Organisation as they have been ratified and implemented that have really shown the way. I believe that, if we were to compile a history of the ILO, that history would be a history of the world. It would be able to identify quite clearly the great social advances that the world has made in the last 40-odd years. I present a copy of this statement, and I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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