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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 13 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 4518 ..

MR DE DOMENICO (continuing):

I am not going to go on and comment on some of the stuff that the Greens have said publicly - - -

Ms Horodny: The NRMA did not even know you were doing it locally.

MR DE DOMENICO: I will not even listen to that comment, Mr Speaker. I am quite happy to refer - - -

Ms Horodny: No; because it is embarrassing.

MR DE DOMENICO: Do not talk about embarrassment, Ms Horodny. I have just shown how you quote figures willy-nilly. You come in here and come up with all sorts of nonsense and garbage. You are like fairies at the bottom of a garden, for heaven's sake. If no-one agrees with you, it means that you have a monopoly on anything from sanctimonious environments to driver competency. You know nothing. You cannot get it right, even when you stand up in this place and start spouting utter nonsense. Do not talk about that sort of rubbish.

The bottom line is that the previous Labor Government in South Australia did it because it believed it was good. The Labor Government here started the process. We agree with them. The NRMA agrees with us. The Australian Driver Trainers Association fully supports it. The only people who do not seem to be convinced about this are the two Green members of the ACT Legislative Assembly. If that is the case, so be it. Knock off the Bill; vote against the Bill. You can use that democratic right.

Mr Speaker, I commend this Bill to the Assembly. I believe that anything this Government or any other government can do to produce safer drivers on our roads ought to be applauded. I applaud Mr Lamont, and did so when he started this scheme off. We applauded the South Australian Labor Government. One would hope that every member of the Assembly would support this Bill.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

MR DE DOMENICO (Minister for Urban Services) (5.58): Mr Speaker, pursuant to standing order 174, I move:

That the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996 be referred to the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs for inquiry and report.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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