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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3317 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

HelpShop is fast becoming recognised as a retail model in Australia and has been televised nationally through the Channel 9 Small Business Show. Interest in the program has been shown by the Queensland Government and by a number of Aboriginal enterprise development programs in New South Wales and Queensland. The helpShop program and local shopping centres were recently featured in a Canberra Times special Saturday feature article entitled "Local Heroes". I hope that gives all the information that everybody needs.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (3.44): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion to censure the Chief Minister and the Minister for Industrial Relations.

Leave granted.

MR BERRY: I move:

That the Chief Minister and the Minister for Industrial Relations be censured for misleading the Assembly.

Mr Speaker, I can see that the agenda this afternoon is a busy one. I am loath to interfere with the business, but this is a serious matter which must be drawn to the attention of other members of the Assembly and the community. Yesterday in this Assembly I moved a motion which reads as follows:

That this Assembly supports the introduction of a common rule award for all social and community service workers in the ACT;

I amended that, by leave, to include the words "and urges the Government to support the application before the Industrial Relations Commission". The second part of my amended motion reads as follows:

Further, this Assembly believes that organisations should not be penalised by the implementation of a common rule award for these workers and that the government should supplement organisations to enable them to meet their award obligations.

Subsequent to my moving that motion, it got the usual serve from the Government, that is, that this was a curious motion, or words to that effect. Mr Kaine was the first to respond, in his capacity as Minister for Industrial Relations. He said:

I will explain what I mean. But let me make it quite clear that the Government does not oppose the implementation of a common rule for the social and community services award.

This is fact one, according to Mr Kaine.

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