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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2286 ..

MR WOOD (continuing):

(b) by letter addressed to the Company Secretary, indicated that he was unable or unwilling to be the staff director; or

(c) become of unsound mind or a person whose person or estate was liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental health;

the Company Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after that day, by notice in the Gazette, declare that the office of staff director is vacant.

(4) Where a notice referred to in subclause (3) is published in the Gazette, the provisions of this Part shall be taken to be amended as follows:

Subclause 2 (1) (definition of "first staff director") -

Omit the definition.

Subclause 2 (1) (definition of "staff director") -

Omit from the definition "and includes the first staff director".

Subclauses 7 (1) and (2) -

Omit the subclauses.'.".

The amendments are very extensive but they perform a simple task and an important task, namely, to see that a representative of the people who work in and for ACTTAB is on the board. It is important. I made mention of this yesterday in my speech and Mr De Domenico agreed with me that it is important that the people on that board are of the highest calibre. By passing this amendment we will be doing just that. A member of the staff will be elected, or has, in the first instance, already been proposed. That person will provide high-calibre advice to ACTTAB.

In this day when we are told that there is so much competition for the gambling dollar, when business enterprise has to be at the top echelon of management, who better to provide guidance and advice at board meetings than someone who is representative of those people in face-to-face meetings with the gambling public? Who else is better able to say what the gambling people want than the worker? There is no-one better. They deal with them constantly, whether over the phone in phone betting or in the agencies. They know what the customer wants, and they are able to give first-hand pertinent advice to that effect. In these days it is now becoming commonplace for workers' representatives to be nominated to the boards of those workplaces,

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