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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3359 ..

Mr Humphries: "You are easily outraged", I said.

MR BERRY: Mr Humphries interjects that I am easily outraged. This Bill was comprehensively criticised by the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation just this morning. Mr Moore has no eye for process. He has an eye for the mood of the Government and seems to be one-eyed. He is supporting the Government in an abuse of process which involves the ramming through of this piece of legislation. How dare this Government ram through legislation which contains inexplicable provisions and indeed unexplained conditions! I will refer in a moment to one which I have been able to pick up in my quick reading on the issue. When a comprehensive report of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation has been very critical of the legislation and there has been no response to it from the Government, how can Mr Moore and the Independents support this Bill being rammed through? Mr Moore must have more inside information than I have in relation to the matter.

The usual course of action in this place - and I am sure one which Mr Moore would bleat about if it were not to occur with one of his favourite subjects - is that when there is a report from a committee, especially a comprehensive report such as the one delivered this morning, the Government comes back with a written response. That has been the attitude of Mr Moore in the past. He has been committed to the process of ensuring that before we move into legislation we get written responses to all of his committee reports, so that this Assembly can properly and openly consider them; but, it seems, not on this one. I hear, not from the Government, because I do not have a copy of the amendments that they propose - - -

Mrs Carnell: We do not propose any. We will tell you what we are going to do in a minute.

Mr Moore: They do not need to propose amendments.

MR BERRY: Mrs Carnell says that she does not propose any and will tell me what she is going to do in a minute. Mr Moore says that they are going to move some amendments.

Mr Moore: No, I did not.

MR BERRY: It becomes a little more confusing.

Mr Moore: If you had read the Bill, Wayne, that might have been a good start. You have not done any preparation, and you know it. You did not do any preparation on the substantive Bill and you have not done any on this one.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry has the floor.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, if you could get Mr Moore to button his lip for a minute, it would be a bit more helpful.

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