Extract from Hansard  Legislative Council 31 May 2001
Ian Gilfillan Australian Democrats Member of the Legislative Council		Parliament Index 2001 Autumn Sitting Index Browse by Subject   Search all Democrats material About the SA Parliament Hansard on line
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STATUTES AMENDMENT (CORPORATIONS) BILL

In committee.

Clause 1.

The Hon. IAN GILFILLAN: I wish to give the Attorney-General an opportunity to share with us his extensive knowledge of some of the intricacies of this whole matter. For that purpose, I read what is part of clause 69, as follows:

Section 1 of the principal act is amended by striking out subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:

(3) Nothing in the amendment reference is intended to enable the making of laws pursuant to the amendment reference with the sole or main underlying purpose or object of-

(a) regulating industrial relations matters; or

(b) restricting the practice of a particular profession or trade to corporations or their employees,

even if, but for this subsection, the law would be a law with respect to a matter referred to the parliament of the commonwealth by the amendment reference.

My concern is that it specifically wrestles with the energetic defence that the Attorney has put up, one in which I have joined with him shoulder to shoulder, to try to ensure that we are not intruded on through unwittingly opening up the capacity for the commonwealth or the majority of the states to impose their will on South Australian legislation. It was a matter that I referred to in my second reading contribution to the principal bill. I understand that this matter is still being negotiated between the parties. Will the Attorney advise the committee how he sees the current situation as far as the negotiation is concerned; and what protection does clause 69 gives us in South Australia?

Progress reported; committee to sit again.

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