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SOUTHERN STATE SUPERANNUATION (SALARY) AMENDMENT BILL
Adjourned debate on second reading.
The Hon. M.J. ELLIOTT: I rise to support the second reading of the bill. I note that it is supported by the Public Service Association, the major representative of public sector employees. If the association is satisfied with it, I will not tell it that it is wrong.
However, we note that it was introduced into the parliament yesterday and that it is going through this chamber today. In this place one frequently expresses a wish that bills were around a little longer than that, regardless of the apparently non- contentious nature of them. In fact, if anything, the pattern is getting worse rather than better in this regard, without ever being accompanied by an adequate explanation. It is one thing if a court suddenly exposes a major weakness and it has to be addressed very quickly, but here we have a parliament that will not sit for four months and in the dying stages of the session we have the introduction of several bits of legislation that we are being asked to put straight through.
Bill read a second time and taken through its remaining stages.
