Page 4106 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 16 Sept 2009
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MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (5.32): With the defeat of clause 6, both clauses 7 and 8 are redundant and the government will oppose them.
Clause 7 negatived.
Clause 8.
MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (5.33): With the defeat of clause 6, clause 8 is redundant and the government will oppose it.
Clause 8 negatived.
Clause 9.
MS LE COUTEUR (Molonglo) (5.33): I am speaking, believe it or not, to oppose this clause. The reason I am opposing it is that this clause was predicated on the ACT actually banning cage eggs and we thought, “Okay, if we had banned cage eggs, what this clause would do is repeal the Animal Welfare Amendment Act 1997.” This obviously was passed in 1997. It was designed to ban the sale of cage eggs in the ACT.
It has uncommenced provisions which are similar to the provisions in my bill prohibiting keeping hens in cage systems. And these provisions can only commence if states and territories agree under the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 that the territory can ban the sale of cage eggs. The Labor Party agreed to this in 1997.
Because today we have no support, unfortunately, for the ban on cage eggs, my bill no longer has to remove the uncommenced provisions. We would prefer, and it would be better, to leave them intact as a commitment to the legislation which the Assembly, in its wisdom, originally passed in 1997. If we take them out now, we in fact are going further backwards from the Assembly’s earlier commitment which was to try to eliminate cage eggs. So we are actually going to be opposing the clause, even though it was part of the original bill.
Clause 9 negatived.
Clause 10.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (5.35), by leave: I move:
That the Eggs (Cage Systems) Legislation Amendment Bill 2009, as amended, and the Government’s proposed amendments to the Eggs (Labelling and Sale) Act be referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety for inquiry with special consideration on the impact on business.
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