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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2360 ..

Mr Humphries: So have they.

MR MOORE: I am saying that you have been consistent. I think that was the case when the Alliance Government was in and when they were in opposition as well. To have Labor now see the light on this issue is great.

Mr Berry: No, not your light; a different light.

Mr Humphries: It is a light they shine in opposition.

MR MOORE: Mr Humphries's interjection is that it is a light which shines in opposition, which brings me back, Mr Speaker, to an interjection that Mr Humphries made once before that went something like this: "I can be honest now that I am in opposition". It was words to that effect. They are immortalised in Hansard for Mr Humphries's benefit and for the rest of us - the difference between being in government and being in opposition.

Mr Speaker, one cannot help wondering what it is about these companies and company shares and so forth that in some way could damage the service or damage the Government. In both of these issues, the one that we have just voted on that I do not reflect on and the one that we are now dealing with, Mr Speaker, some people may well see the damage to the Minister as being a damage to the service. Of course, it would not apply to current Ministers, but I can understand why some Ministers may well see that as almost being the same thing. I would hope that you would be able to explain to me why, with clause 8, there would have to be some commercial interest or some commercial statement as far as the Minister's opinion is concerned. I cannot foresee the picture. I wonder, in fact, with both clause 8 and clause 9, what was on the Government's mind? What was their agenda in thinking that they were going to have these commercial-in-confidence decisions?

Amendment agreed to.

MR BERRY (6.30): I move:

Page 7, line 31, clause 15, subclause (1), after paragraph (c), insert the following new paragraphs:

"(d) a Member appointed by the Minister after taking into account consultation with the community and community health organisations;

(e) a Member appointed by the Minister after taking into account consultation with the Trades and Labour Council of the ACT.".

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