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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (1 March) . . Page.. 416 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

I do not want to belabour the consultation phase, but I must say that people in the Government seem to want to ignore the committee process. So often we climb up in this place and applaud the committee process for the consultation feature that it provides for the community. This Bill was sent off to a committee at the insistence of this place and a committee properly examined it. Notice of the inquiry was advertised in the Canberra Times and the committee gave due notice of its deliberations. The industry was informed by the Government on no less than two occasions before the matter came before the committee.

I never exactly hid my light under a bushel on this one. I was actively out there boasting about it because I thought it was a good idea, so I was not exactly keeping it a secret and there certainly was not a flood of people banging on my door saying, "Wayne, do not do this". The only time I had a number of letters was when there was a rush of blood to the head in the last week or so after the Chamber of Commerce and Industry called on a few employment agencies to write to me to ask for more time. I received about 10 letters. I suspect they are the same as the 10 letters that Mr Humphries has tabled today. I just think that we should get on with the business of providing protection for job seekers out in the community, instead of having all the artificial fuss and bother which the Government has constructed quite artfully.

Question put:

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9  	NOES, 6

Mr Berry  	Mr Cornwell
Mr Corbell  	Mr Hird
Mr Hargreaves	Mr Humphries
Mr Kaine  	Mr Moore
Mr Osborne  	Mr Smyth
Mr Rugendyke  	Mr Stefaniak
Mr Stanhope
Ms Tucker
Mr Wood

Amendments agreed to.

Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

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