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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 45 ..
MR WOOD (continuing):
malicious in intent. Minister, is the only recourse for this man, subject to the adverse decision of ACT Family Services, to take the matter at considerable expense to the Supreme Court? Minister, should not ACT Family Services accept the Family Court judge's view that it was wrong not to amend their records? Can you act to see that this happens?
MR STEFANIAK: I thank the member for the question and also for the courtesy of giving me the paper report just before question time. I have read that. It was interesting to see the comments made by the journalist in terms of his honour Mr Justice Faulks' comments. I am not too sure how accurately they were reported or otherwise. I would like to see a transcript of what was said in the court. Mr Wood, I am happy to look into that matter for you. I was concerned to see some of the comments which are attributed to the judge. Obviously, I think that is a matter which bears greater investigation. I think the judge was quite accurate in saying that the Family Court might have been the inappropriate tribunal to go to and that the only other avenues would be the Supreme Court or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. In light of what is reported there and in light of your concerns, I am happy to have a look at the matter and to see whether anything can be done.
MR WOOD: I thank the Minister for that and I will keep in touch with him about that. The report in the Canberra Times quotes the Minister as saying that the file had not been changed despite the judge's comments. That is current. I have the clearest memory of a verbal briefing quite some time ago advising me that those files which could be identified had been amended to bear that notation. Would the Minister check that out, or was I misinformed?
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Wood, if you tell me that you were informed of that some time ago, I certainly will have that checked out. If you were advised that some files that could be identified were altered and that did not occur, I would like to know why you were told that and it did not happen. I will check that out as well.
MR OSBORNE: My question is to Mr Humphries and it is about the deregulation of the milk industry. I think he is the Minister to answer this question. As you are aware, Minister, the ACT milk industry will be totally deregulated from 1 July this year. In order to prepare for this, in recent months your Government has been attempting to restructure the home vending sector to supposedly make home vending businesses larger and more profitable. Would you please inform the Assembly of the progress which has been made in this restructuring, particularly details of the $7.50 per litre price guarantee for home delivery licences, the number of milkos who have agreed to have their licences auctioned, and what options are available for those milkos who do not wish to have their licences auctioned, given that the price guarantee is only valued at between 50 and 75 per cent of the price that most vendors originally paid for their milk delivery businesses?
MR HUMPHRIES
: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Osborne for that question and I am happy to provide some information to the Assembly about the process. Members will recall that the Government announced that it would institute a plan to provide essentially for the
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