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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3650 ..

MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to present Report No 16 of 2000 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety performing the duties of a scrutiny of bills and subordinate legislation committee and to make a statement.

Leave granted.

MR HARGREAVES: I present the following paper:

Mr Speaker, I want to make a couple of brief points which may interest Mr Moore, if he can pull himself out of the ear of the Minister for Urban Services.

Mr Moore: I'm listening to you, Mr Hargreaves, every single word.

MR HARGREAVES: I am grateful for that. I am sure that Mr Moore, as a real follower of politics in this town, will be intrigued to read the report that I have just presented.

Mr Smyth: He always reads them.

MR HARGREAVES: I will ignore the idiotic ramblings of the Minister for Urban Services and concentrate on the mind of Mr Moore, who will be particularly interested in where this committee is headed.

The report talks about a national committee of scrutiny, which follows his motives in putting forward the Administration (Interstate Agreements) Act and takes it, along with legislation that I hope to have before the Assembly tomorrow, to a new level of openness, scrutiny and transparency. The action being proposed by this committee, led by Victoria, talks about a piece of model legislation for us all to adopt within our own jurisdictions, slightly modified to our own needs. But this proposal is ambitious and radical and, curiously, it has bipartisan support within the committees. Further consideration of the draft bill will continue at the next meeting, which will happen in February.

I urge Mr Moore to have a good look at it because, as I said, it extends his view on the Administration (Interstate Agreements) Act and transparency. I will not go into the matter in detail as I suspect that I will be tempted to go into it in some detail later, but the real test of Mr Moore's integrity as far as the Administration (Interstate Agreements) Act is concerned will come when we see the model food legislation. I have had conversations with Mr Moore about the application of that act to the model food legislation.

Mr Moore: It doesn't apply.

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