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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 10 Hansard (30 August) . . Page.. 3871 ..
The Assembly voted-
Ayes, 8 Noes, 9
Mr Berry Mr Quinlan Mrs Burke Mr Moore
Mr Corbell Mr Stanhope Mr Cornwell Mr Rugendyke
Mr Hargreaves Ms Tucker Mr Hird Mr Smyth
Mr Osborne Mr Wood Mr Humphries Mr Stefaniak
Mr Kaine
Question so resolved in the negative.Amendment negatived.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (10.16): Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask for leave to move amendments Nos 1 and 2, circulated in my name, together.
Leave granted.
MR SMYTH: I move amendments Nos 1 and 2 [see schedule 12 at page 3931].
I have already spoken to these amendments.
MR BERRY (10.16): Mr Deputy Speaker, Labor will be supporting these amendments. Although we will not be too critical of the minister for patching up the mistakes in his legislation, we will draw attention-
Mr Humphries: At least it happened before the legislation was passed.
MR BERRY: We are generous types-not as mean spirited as some people in this house who would deny individual contractors access to long service leave.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I draw attention to the following description of this weighty piece of legislation in the explanatory memorandum to the bill:
When drafting the amendments, Parliamentary Counsel modernised the language and phrasing of sections, consistent with contemporary ACT Government drafting standards.
So this huge bill that was introduced to amend the legislation is mostly made up of changes resulting from machinery drafting instructions.
In any event, we welcome the bill. We welcome the efforts of the minister in putting it forward and for at last, to some degree at least, except for 70 cleaners, supporting access to long service leave conditions for these workers.
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