Department of the Legislative Assembly, Northern Territory Government

Minutes of Proceedings - 1994-08-23

Seventh Assembly First Session 23/08/1994 Parliamentary Record No. 2
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Date : 23/08/1994
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      INDEX TO MINUTES SITTING DAY Nos 4 – 9
From To Pages
23 August 1994 1 September 1994 43 - 85

ADDRESS-IN-REPLY 47,53,58,59
Notification to present 66
Presentation to Administrator - Report to Assembly 66,67

APPRECIATION OF SERVICE - HORACE GUY SMITH, FORMER
CLERK OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 76,77

BILLS PASSED
D=Discharged
N=Negatived
P=Passed
*=Opposition Bill

Serial 20 Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Northern Territory) 1994 48P
13 Choice of Law (Limitation Periods) 1994 54P
14 Criminal Code Amendment (No. 2) 1994 54,55P
15 Director of Public Prosecutions Amendment 1994 55,56P
29 Education Amendment 1994 68
26 Environmental Assessment Amendment 1994 56,58
1 Financial Administration and Audit Amendment 1994 53P
7 Financial Agreement between the Commonwealth, States and
Territories (Approval) 1994 47,48P
27 Gaming Control Amendment 1994 57,67
31 Gaming Control Amendment (No. 2) 1994 82
21 Granites Exploration Agreement Ratification 1994 60P
16 Misuse of Drugs Amendment 1994 81-82P
22 Northern Territory Employment and Training Authority Amendment 1994 49P
30 Pastoral Land Amendment 1994 68,82P
23 Petroleum Amendment 1994 59,60P
17 Police Administration Amendment (No. 2) 1994 81-82P
18 Police Administration Amendment (No. 3) 1994 76P
28 Racing and Betting Amendment 1994 57,68
25 Statute Law Revision 1994 53,54P
11 Territory Insurance Office Amendment 1994 48P

DISSENT FROM SPEAKER’S DECISIONS - NEGATIVED
Adjournment Debate procedure (Mr Ede) 74
Referral of alleged deliberate misleading of the Assembly by Member for
Wanguri to Committee of Privileges (Mr Ede) 65

MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
Provision of adequate health care services to rural and remote Territorians 69

MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR
No. 4 — Assent to proposed laws, dated 29 August 1994 (Paper 60) 63,64
18 May 1994:
Education Amendment Act 1994
Lands Acquisition Amendment Act 1994
Mining Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994
Motor Vehicles Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994
Museums and Art Galleries Amendment Act 1994
National Crime Authority (Territory Provisions) Amendment Act 1994
Native Title (Consequential Amendments) Act 1994
Perpetuities Act 1994
Prisons (Correctional Services) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994
Stock Diseases Amendment Act 1994
Summary Offences Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994
Summary Offences Amendment Act (No. 3) 1994
Trustee Amendment Act (No. 2) 1994
Veterinarians Act 1994

30 June 1994:
Appropriation Act 1994-95
Northern Territory Treasury Corporation Act 1994
Pay-roll Tax Amendment Act 1994
Stamp Duty Amendment Act 1994
State Bank of South Australia (Transfer of Undertaking) Act 1994
Taxation (Administration) Act 1994

MINISTRY AND ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS ORDER
Gazette S43 (Paper 62) 43

MOTIONS NEGATIVED
Adjournment Debate Procedure - Motion of Dissent 74
Suspend Standing Orders to Appoint Board of Inquiry pursuant to section 4A of the
Inquiries Act re coronial inquiry findings concerning death of Mr Halliday
from inhalation of BCF fire extinguisher 51

MOTIONS (Procedural)
    Suspend Standing Orders –
      Allow Minister for Conservation extension of time to complete speech 46
      Allow Appointment of Board of Inquiry pursuant to section 4A of the Inquiries Act
      re coronial inquiry findings concerning death of Mr Halliday - denied 51
Pass Bill through all Stages –
Pastoral Land Amendment 1994 (Serial 30) 68
Suspend Standing and Sessional Orders -
Order of routine business during sitting of 4 October 1994 85

MOTIONS (Substantive)
2001 A Report from Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments by
the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee, dated August 1994 -
Note paper (Mr Perron) 76
Abolition of the Three Mine Policy for Uranium Mining (Mr Reed) 45
Adopt -
Publications Committee, 1st Report (Mr Setter) 84
Standing Orders Committee, First Report (Mr Manzie) 82
Alcohol and Young People in the Northern Territory by the Department of Health
and Community Services - Note paper (Mr Reed) (Paper 99) 67
Appreciation of Service - Horace Guy Smith 76
Arts in the Northern Territory - Note statement (Mr Stone) (Paper 105) 67
Camel Industry in the Northern Territory - Note statement (Mr Palmer) 76
Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve Plan of Management, dated January 1994 -
Note paper (Mr Coulter) 79
Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve Plan of Management - Review of Public Submissions,
dated January 1994 - Note paper (Mr Coulter) 79
Dissent from Speaker’s decision re referral of Matter to Privileges Committee 65
Education in the Northern Territory, Opportunities - Note statement (Mr Finch)
(Paper 94) 58
Expunge second speech to Address-in-Reply by Member for Wanguri (Mr Stone) 59
Juvenile Crime Workshop 1994 - Note statement (Mr Poole) 80
Leaders’ Forum, 29 July 1994 and Council of Australian Governments 19 August 1994 -
Note statement (Mr Perron) 52,53
Note paper -
2001 A Report from Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments
by the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee, dated August 1994
(Mr Perron) 76
Adjournment and routine business for 4 October 1994 (Mr Stone) 85
Alcohol and Young People in the Northern Territory by the Department of Health
and Community Services (Mr Reed) 67
Chambers pillar historical reserve - plan of management (Mr Coulter) 79
Office of the Auditor-General, Annual Report, 1993-94 46
Public Accounts Committee - Report No. 21 - Report on the Auditor-General’s
Annual Reports 1990-91 and 1991-92 47
    Note statement -
Arts in the Northern Territory - Note statement (Mr Stone) (Paper 105) 67
Camel Industry in the Northern Territory (Mr Palmer) (Paper 134) 76
Education in the Northern Territory - Opportunities (Mr Finch) (Paper 94) 58
Juvenile Crime Workshop 1994 (Mr Poole) (Paper 145) 80
Leaders’ Forum, 29 July 1994 and Council of Australian Governments,
19 August 1994 (Mr Perron) 52,53
Office of the Auditor-General, Annual Report, year ended 30 June 1994
      Print paper (Mr Stone) (Paper 61) 46
      Note paper (Mr Stone) 46
    Print paper -
Office of the Auditor-General, Annual Report, year ended 30 June 1994
(Mr Stone) (Paper 61) 46
Review of “Final Report of the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee
Report No. 12” by R.G. Walker, Professor of Accounting, University of NSW
(Mr Setter) 80
Public Accounts Committee -
Change in Membership
Mr Burke (appointed) 47
Mr Palmer (discharged) 47
Report No. 21 - Report on the Auditor-General’s Annual Reports 1990-91
and 1991-92 - Note paper 47
Publications Committee, 1st Report - Adopt (Mr Setter) 84
Review of “Final Report of the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee
Report No. 12” by R.G. Walker, Professor of Accounting, University of NSW
(Mr Setter) - Print paper 80
Routine of Business for 4 October 1994 (Mr Stone) 85
Sessional Committee on the Environment - Change in Membership
Dr Lim (appointed) 52
      Mr Palmer (discharged) 52
Standing Orders Committee, First Report - Adopt recommendations (Mr Manzie) 82
Subordinate Legislation and Tabled Papers Committee - Change in Membership
Dr Lim (appointed) 52
Mr Palmer (discharged) 52
Working Party on Public Accounts Committee Report No. 12, Final Report by
R.G. Walker, Professor of Accounting, University NSW - Print paper (Mr Setter) 80

PAPERS AND REPORTS TABLED
1993 Group Certificate issued in the name of Nicholas Phillip Powrie
(Mrs Hickey) (Paper 138) 77
2001 A Report from Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian
Governments by the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee,
dated August 1994 (Mr Perron) (Paper 123) 76
Administrative Arrangements Order, Gazette No. S.43 (Mr Perron) 44
Alcohol and Young People in the Northern Territory by the Department
of Health and Community Services (Mr Reed) (Paper 99) 67
Annual Reports
Department of Correctional Services, 1993-94 (Paper 128) 77
Juvenile Justice Board of Management, Northern Region, 1993-94 (Paper 129) 77
Juvenile Justice Board of Management, Southern Region, 1993-94 (Paper 130) 78
Northern Territory University, 1993 (Paper 78) 49
Office of the Auditor-General 1993-94 (Paper 61) 46
Registrar of Financial Institutions, 1992-93 (Paper 63) 49
Article “Emily paints the sound of silence”, Northern Territory News,
dated 29 August 1994 (Mr Finch) (Paper 151) 85
Article, “Why there should be a State Mineral Collection”, The
AusIMM Annual Conference, Darwin, 5 - 9 August 1994
(Mrs Hickey) (Paper 91) 56
Australian Urban and Regional Development Review, Consultants
Brief (Mrs Hickey) (Paper 152) 53
Booklet, N T Business & the Law, Department of Industries and
Development; Ministry of Asian Relations and Trade and the Law
Society of the Northern Territory (Mr Stone) (Paper 92) 56
Brochure, JTB - Honda Masters Games, Alice Springs, Australia,
15 - 23 October 1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 147) 79
Brochure, JTB - Honda Masters Games, Alice Springs, 15 - 23 October
1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 148) 79
By-law
Cullen Bay Marina By-laws (Paper 65) 50
Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve Plan of Management, dated January
1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 142) 79
Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve - Plan of Management - Review of
Public Submissions, dated January 1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 143) 79
Cheque copy, Bracknell Pty Ltd trading as Darwin Protection
Service, ACN 009611045 (Mr Stirling) (Paper 137) 77
Communique, Meeting of Premiers and Chief Ministers, 29 July
1994 (Sydney) (Mr Perron) (Paper 90) 52
Community Government Scheme
Wallace Rockhole, Amendment (Paper 80) 50
Coroners Summary - Inquest into the death of Mark Halliday
(Mr Finch) (Paper 100) 66
Council of Australian Governments’ Meeting, Darwin, 19 August 1994
(Mr Perron) (Paper 93) 52
Draft Amendments - Variation of Environmental Assessment
Administrative Procedures (Mr Coulter) (Paper 95) 58
Extract of Debates dated Monday 27 June 1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 131) 74
Financial Administration and Audit Act
Direction by Treasurer, pursuant to s. 13(1)(b), Transfer of Funds Saved -
Northern Territory Treasury: Services, dated 30 June 1994 (Paper 79) 50
Department of Lands, Housing and Local Government, dated 30 June 1994 (Serial 81) 50
Department of Correctional Services, dated 30 June 1994 (Paper 82) 50
Formal Response by the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee
Report No. 12 :- to Professor Robert Walker’s Review of ‘Final
Report by the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee Report
No. 12’, dated August 1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 144) 80
Future Directions and Policy Issues for the Northern Territory
Department of Health and Community Services, presentation
by Mr Graham Symons, Acting Secretary, June 1992 (Mrs Hickey)
        (Paper 109) 69
    Graph, N T Government Arts Grants (Mr Stone) (Paper 106) 67
Graphs - All Causes; Diseases of the Circulatory System; Respiratory
Diseases; and Infectious Diseases by Age Standardised Mortality
Rate - Aboriginal by District, Non-Aboriginal & Australia,
1985-91 (Mr Reed) (Paper 111) 70
    Japanese newspaper, copy of, with advertisements for the Honda Masters
    Games in the Alice Springs (Mr Coulter) (Paper 146) 79
    Juvenile Crime Workshop - “Crime Prevention - Whose Responsibility Is It?”,
    Outcome Document (Mr Poole) (Paper 141) 80
    Letters -
    Mr John Bailey, MLA, Member for Wanguri to Mr I. V. Knight,
    Ombudsman for the Northern Territory, dated 29 October 1991
    (Mr Bailey) (Paper 87) 49
    Mr J Bailey, Member for Wanguri to Speaker of the Legislative
    Assembly, dated 29 August 1994 (Mr McCarthy) (Paper 103) 64
Mr John Baskerville, Regional Director South, Department of
Transport and Works to Director, Shorrlong Pty Ltd, dated
8 August 1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 114) 70
Mr Neil Bell, MLA, Member for Macdonnell to Hon D. W. Manzie,
MLA, Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services, dated
29 August 1994 with an attached letter to Mr G. Carter,
President, N T Police Association (Mr Bell) (Paper 120) 71
Mr Neil Bell, MLA, Member for Macdonnell to Hon D. W. Manzie,
MLA, Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency, dated
26 August 1994 (Mr Bell) (Paper 118) 70
Mr R. C. Burr, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation to Mr George
Mancini, dated 15 June 1994 (Mrs Hickey) (Paper 139) 77
Mr Brian Ede, MLA, Leader of the Opposition to Mr Neil Bell
MLA, Member for Macdonnell, dated 29 August 1994
(Mr Bell) (Paper 119) 70
    Mr Brian Ede, MLA, Leader of the Opposition to Hon Shane
    Stone, MLA, Minister for Industries and Development,
    dated 18 August 1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 135) 77
    Hon F. A. Finch, MLA, Attorney-General to Mr I. V. Knight,
Ombudsman, dated 24 August 1994 (Mr Finch) (Paper 101) 66
Mr Paul Glynn, Centre Plumbing to Attention Mr Michael Kilgariff,
dated 5 August 1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 113) 70
Mr Paul Glynn, Centre Plumbing to Hon Shane Stone, MLA
Minister for Supply and Tender Board, dated 8 August
1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 115) 70
Mr Paul Glynn, Centre Plumbing to Hon Shane Stone, MLA,
Minister for Supply and Tender Board, dated 9 August 1994
(Mr Ede) (Paper 116) 70
Mr I. V. Knight, Ombudsman for the Northern Territory to
Mr John Bailey, MLA, dated 8 November 1991 (Mr Bailey)
(Paper 88) 49
Mr I. V. Knight, Ombudsman to Mr John Bailey, MLA, Member
for Wanguri, dated 24 December 1993 (Mr Bailey) (Paper 104) 65
Mr I. V. Knight, Ombudsman to Hon F. A Finch, MLA, Attorney-
General, dated 25 August 1994 (Mr Finch) (Paper 96) 58
Mr I. V. Knight, Ombudsman to Mr J Bailey, MLA, Member for Wanguri,
dated 30 June 1994 with attached letter Mr I V Knight,
Ombudsman to Ms Harrison, Secretary, Dept of Law,
dated 30 June 1994 (Mr Bailey) (Paper 64) 45
Hon D. W. Manzie, MLA, Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency
Services to Mr Neil Bell, MLA, Member for Macdonnell, dated
25 August 1994 (Mr Bell) (Paper 117) 70
    Open letter, “To the politicians who are interested in promoting
    Aboriginal health” signed Urapuntja Health Service Healthworker
    Graduands, dated 3 August 1994 (Mr Ede) (Paper 136) 77
Mr Hon Mike Reed, MLA, Minister for Health and Community
Services to Hon Carmen Lawrence, MP, Minister for Human
Services and Health, dated 11 April 1994 and Attachment A -
Factors Affecting Health Status and Attachment B - Health
Strategies (Mr Reed) (Paper 112) 70
Hon Shane Stone, Minister for Industries and Development to Mr Paul Glynn,
Director, Centre Plumbing, dated 12 August 1994 (Paper 122) 71
Memorandum, Minister for Industries and Development to Secretary,
Department of Industries and Development, dated 10 August 1994 (Paper 121) 71
Memorandum to Departmental Executive Group regarding Darwin
Rural District - 1994/95 Budget Allocations, dated 23 June 1994
(Mrs Hickey) (Paper 110) 70
Opportunities Open in Education in the Northern Territory (Mr Finch)
(Paper 94) 58
Police Administration Act
Determination No. T4 of 1994, Police Arbitral Tribunal Determination
No. 2 of 1982, dated 20 May 1994 (Paper 124) 78
Consent Agreement, (undated) (Paper 125) 78
Consent Agreement, dated 20 May 1994 (Paper 126) 78
Consent Agreement, dated 13 October 1994 (Paper 127) 78
Publications Committee - First Report (Mr Setter) (Paper 150) 82
Public Accounts Committee, Report No. 21 - Report on the Auditor-
General’s Annual Reports 1990-91 and 1991-92 (Paper 83) 47
Questions without Notice, House of Representatives, Daily Hansard
page 625, dated 30 August 1994 - Proof copy (Paper 132) 74
    Regulations, 1994
    No. 14, Darwin City Council By-laws (Paper 66) 50
    No. 15, Veterinarians Regulations (Paper 67) 50
    No. 16, Local Government (Administration) Regulations (Paper 68) 50
    No. 17, Local Government (Road Opening and Closing) Regulations (Paper 69) 50
    No. 18, Amendments of Local Government (Accounting) Regulations
    (Paper 70) 50
    No. 19, Amendments of Fisheries Regulations (Paper 71) 50
    No. 20, Amendments of Treasury Regulations (Paper 72) 50
    No. 21, Amendments of Supreme Court Rules (Paper 73) 50
    No. 22, Amendment of Commercial Passenger (Miscellaneous) Regulations
    (Paper 74) 50
    No. 23, Amendments of Water Regulations (Paper 75) 50
    No. 24, Amendments of Crimes (Forfeiture of Proceeds) Regulations
    (Paper 76) 50
    No. 25, Amendment of Heritage Conservation Regulations (Paper 77) 50
Report on the Leaders’ Forum, 29 July 1994 and Council of Australian
Governments, 19 August 1994 (Mr Perron) (Paper 89) 52
Standing Orders Committee, First Report (Mr Manzie) (Paper 149) 82
States and Territories of Australia, 1991 to 1992 (Mrs Hickey)
(Paper 107) 30
Table of occasions on which a Member has adjourned the Assembly
      and then spoken in closing the debate (Mr Perron) (Paper 145) 79
    Table 13 - Household Income, Household Income per head of mean
      population, and Household Disposal Income: by State and
      Territory, Australian Bureau of Statistics (Mr Bell) (Paper 86) 47
Table 16, State Mortality Differentials based on standardised mortality
ratio by cause, persons of all ages, States and Territories of Australia
1991 to 1992 (Mrs Hickey) (Paper 107) 69
Table 17, Socio-economic Index (a), Percentage of Aboriginal Population
(b), Observed Deaths (c), and Standardised Mortality Ratios, Statistical
Subdivisions, States and Territories of Australia, 1991-1992 (Mrs Hickey)
(Paper 108) 69
    Transcript, Australian Labor Party 35th Biennial National Conference,
    Canberra, Monday, 5 July 1982 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 84) 46
Uranium Policy Review Committee of the National Executive of the
Australian Labor Party, Report, dated 10 April 1991 (Mr Coulter)
(Paper 85) 46
    Working Party on Public Accounts Committee Report No. 12”, Final Report
    by R. G. Walker, Professor of Accounting, University of New South Wales
    (Mr Setter) (Paper 140) 80

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS:
Mr Bailey 45,57
PETITIONS
Bus routes for Berry Springs School, road funding (350 petitioners) (Mr Manzie)
(Paper 102) 64
Road Safety Problems at T-intersection on Leanyer and Vanderlin Drives in the
area of Hibiscus Shopping Centre (132 petitioners) (Mr Bailey) (Paper 97) 57

PRIVILEGE
Referral of matter to Privileges Committee, Alleged deliberate misleading of the
Assembly by the Member of Wanguri (Mr Bailey) 64
Request for referral to Committee of Privileges
Alleged deliberate misleading of Assembly by Member for Wanguri
(Mr Bailey) in comments he attributed to the Ombudsman - student
inhaling BCF fire extinguisher (Mr Finch) 57,58
Speaker’s decision referring Alleged matter of Privilege concerning Member for
Wanguri 67,69

STATEMENTS
2001 A Report from Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian
Governments by the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee,
dated August 1994 (Mr Perron) (Paper 123) 76
Administrative Arrangements and Ministry (Mr Perron) 43
Alcohol and Young People in the Northern Territory by the Department of
of Health and Community Services (Mr Reed) (Paper 98) 67
Arts in the Northern Territory (Mr Stone) (Paper 105) 67
Camel Industry in the Northern Territory (Mr Palmer) (Paper 134) 76
Education in the Northern Territory - Opportunities (Mr Finch) (Paper 94) 58
Formal Response by the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee
Report No. 12 :- to Professor Robert Walker’s Review of ‘Final Report
by the Working Party on Public Accounts Committee Report No. 12’,
dated August 1994 (Mr Coulter) (Paper 144) 80
Hansard - Changes to Reporting System (Speaker) 44
Juvenile Crime Workshop 1994 -”Crime Prevention - Whose Responsibility
is it?” - Note statement (Mr Poole) (Paper 145) 80
Leaders’ Forum, 29 July 1994 and Council of Australian Governments,
19 August 1994 (Mr Perron) (Paper 89) 52,53
Member for Wanguri speaking twice to Address-in-Reply (Mr Speaker) 59
Reflection on the Chair by Leader of the Opposition during ABC radio,
report of 31 August 1994 73

VISITORS
Students
      Australian Politics students from the Political History Unit of the Centre
for Aboriginal and Islander Studies at the Northern Territory
University, and their lecturer, Mr Bill Langlands 43
Batchelor College School of Education and their lecturer, Jane Zhang 73
Darwin High School, Years 9 and 11 and their teachers Lorraine Caldwell
and Rod Opie 64
English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students Unit at the NT
University and their lecturer Jan Schneider 57
Jabiru Area School, Year 7 and their teacher, Sandy Cartwright 73
Jabiru Area School, Year 10 and their teacher, Mr Andrew Davies 51
Northern Territory University Advanced English as a Second Language
and their lecturer, Annette Burke 73
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