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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3689 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Chief Minister, Minister for Community Affairs, Attorney - General and Treasurer) (8.15): Indeed, Mr Speaker, the government supports this amendment. I think there is an argument for saying that the minister ought to make guidelines as a matter of compulsion, and as a matter of consultation with Clubs ACT.

MS TUCKER (8.16): I rise to support this amendment. I think it is actually quite important. This was one of the concerns that we picked up - there is another one as well - which is really about the fundamental question of whether there is a clear understanding of where policy decisions are made, and that they are certainly open to scrutiny. Obviously the policy decisions have to be made by the minister and they have to be scrutinised by this Assembly.

I think it is important that we are comfortable with the guidelines that the minister does table. The minister has a responsibility, and must make those guidelines available for us to look at. We have the opportunity to disallow those guidelines if we do not believe they are correct, clear or specific enough, because this is what has to guide the commission. The commission should not have a policy function.

Amendment agreed to.

MR MOORE (Minister for Health, Housing and Community Care) (8.17): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move amendment Nos 3 and 4 circulated in my name together.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: I move:

These amendments are about recording, and making sure that the recording processes are in place appropriately so that mechanisms can be checked later.

MR QUINLAN (8.18): Mr Speaker, these amendments are the prelude to Mr Moore's amendment No 7, the highly discriminatory amendment, and seek to single out political contributions made, and require specific registration of same, in order to use that particular registration to Mr Moore's intended ends.

It is at about this time that I think we should really consider where we are headed with the legislation and Mr Moore's particular amendments from this point on. In this place earlier today, I did talk about coming to this place with the expectation that I was working for the community, and the expectation that everybody else in this place was working for the community. Let me observe that I intend to stay in this place and

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