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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3551 ..

PAPER

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): I present, pursuant to standing order 83A, an out-of-order petition, lodged by Mr Hird, from 40 citizens, relating to the sale and use of fireworks.

COMMUNITY LAW REFORM COMMITTEE
Report on Domestic Violence - Government Response

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (3.53): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Government's response to Report No. 11 of the ACT Community Law Reform Committee, which was entitled "Domestic Violence" and which was presented to the Assembly on 26 September 1996. I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

Mr Speaker, I seek leave to have my presentation speech incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

Speech incorporated at Appendix 1.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

LEADERS FORUM AND COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS
Ministerial Statement

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister): Mr Speaker, I seek leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on the Leaders Forum and COAG.

Leave granted.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, last Friday I attended the Leaders Forum meeting in Melbourne and met with other Premiers and Chief Ministers. We met principally to discuss the Prime Minister's plan to reform the Australian tax system for the twenty-first century and to discuss a number of additional issues of national interest and concern; for instance, illicit drugs and public health funding. The meeting provided us with an opportunity to discuss the issues before the next special Premiers meeting on tax reform this Thursday, and Friday's Domestic Violence Summit, Council of Australian Governments meeting and Treaties Council meeting.

The Leaders Forum agreed to a number of key principles of taxation reform: There must be no increase in the overall tax burdens; a new tax system must incorporate a reduction in personal income tax to restore incentives to work, save and invest; the tax burden on exports and business inputs must be reduced to boost investment, jobs and our

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