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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (6 September) . . Page.. 2929 ..
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister): For the information of members, I present the following papers:
Public Sector Management Act, pursuant to sections 31A and 79-Copies of executive contracts or instruments-
Temporary contracts:
Penny Gregory, dated 24 August 2000.
Lyn Walsh, dated 24 August 2000 -
Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to make a short statement with regard to the contracts.
Leave granted.
MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I ask members to respect the confidentiality of these documents. I thank members for respecting confidentiality in the past.
VICTIMS OF CRIME (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL 2000
Debate resumed from 24 May 2000, on motion by Ms Tucker:
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (3.24): I will not detain the Assembly for long with my comments about this legislation. I will start by adopting the words that were used by Mr Corbell the other day. When we were discussing the reintroduction of legislation dealing with betterment, Mr Corbell got up and said, "You people are just sore losers. Don't you know when you've lost." I think that comment could just as well apply to this bill.
It is a considerable concern to see this issue raised again in this place after what was, I think, extensive debate on this matter in the Assembly.
Mr Quinlan: And an appalling decision taken.
MR HUMPHRIES: That comment is probably a reflection on the vote of the Assembly and, as such, is against standing orders. I assume that Mr Quinlan did not quite mean what he said-he must have meant to say something slightly different.
Mr Speaker, I think we will have a real problem if we try to unscramble an egg that has been scrambled. We oppose this bill for a number of reasons. The issues have been fully and properly canvassed by the Assembly in the course of the last two years. A package of reforms, particularly in respect of criminal injuries, to the victims of crime legislation was foreshadowed in this place several years ago. These reforms were put out in discussion paper form and heavily discussed in the broader community. A working party, on which many key stakeholders participated, recommended a body of reforms to the legislation.
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