Page 1069 - Week 03 - Thursday, 26 February 2009
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processes of this place are utilised for the purposes that are so transparently base and cynical as Mrs Dunne’s, the reputation of the member is reduced. I would like to thank the Greens, and in particular Mr Rattenbury, for recognising the cynical motives of Mrs Dunne in this regard and indicating to her that they would not support them.
I will make one final point on the issue of the roles and responsibilities of ministers in this place. I find it interesting that a member who has no experience of executive government in this territory and who has been in this Assembly for all of five minutes seeks to make some detailed and considered commentary about what he believes should be the roles and responsibilities of a minister in this place. I do not know whether it has been drawn to the attention of Mr Hanson and others, but within my portfolio there are literally thousands of statutory appointments. There are literally thousands of individual statutory appointments—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR CORBELL: I heard opposition members in silence, Madam Deputy Speaker. I ask them to do me the same courtesy. They have got to be able to take as good as they get. (Time expired).
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Clauses 1 to 3, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, parts 1.1 and 1.2, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, part 1.3.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (12.00), by leave: I move amendments Nos 1 and 2 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 1145].
I will not speak at length to these amendments. I did outline my reasoning in my earlier comments. I have heard the attorney’s response in his speech and I think I flagged it in my own earlier comments that, whilst I would hope that these amendments would be unnecessary, I think that there is no harm in taking what might be called a precautionary approach to ensure that we do not find ourselves in an unintended or unfortunate situation somewhere down the line.
That is why we would like to proceed with these amendments today. That concludes my comments on these amendments.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (12.02): The Liberal opposition will support these amendments. I had this discussion with Mr Rattenbury the other day and, in fact, I actually contemplated taking the advice of the scrutiny of bills committee on this matter myself. But the problem that occurred to me is that there may be other
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