Page 1780 - Week 06 - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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Mr Milligan said, we really hope that that increases engagement with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body. The more people who engage with the elected body and the more people who vote, the stronger it will be and the more robust a voice it will be for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The bill also shortens the time frame for relevant ministers to respond to consultation reports. Due to COVID-19 the fifth election of the elected body has been postponed by 12 months to NAIDOC week 2021. I thank the community for its understanding with this necessary change.
Part 3 of the bill covers the consequential amendments related to the Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 2020. The passing of the act earlier this month made several amendments that affect the ATSIEB Act.
Subject to leave of the Assembly, I will move government amendments in the detail stage, following advice from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office. These will make several technical changes to the bill, including changing the commencement date. When it passed the Assembly recently, the Electoral Legislation Amendment Bill included two additional amendments that have implications for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body elections requiring additional consequential amendments. These are a new section 110A, candidate information to be published, and changes to section 292, which relates to the dissemination of unauthorised electoral material.
I thank the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body for their ongoing work on behalf of Canberra’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. The elected body is driving real, lasting change and the amendments debated today will only strengthen the elected body’s role and purpose in Canberra and nationally. I also thank the officials who have worked on this bill and the scrutiny committee for its consideration of the bill. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children, Youth and Families and Minister for Health) (4.42): Pursuant to standing order 182A(b), I seek leave to move amendments to this bill that are minor and technical in nature together.
Leave granted.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I move amendments Nos 1 to 3 circulated in my name together and table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendments [see schedule 1 at page 1789].
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