Personal Explanation

MEMBER'S REMARKS

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning) (15:29): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: Earlier today, during the debate on the workers rehabilitation and compensation legislation, the Hon. Mark Parnell (as well as numerous media comments by the opposition members) asserted that the government's legislative priorities for the current sitting week and the previous sitting week were the Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Bill and not the WorkCover legislation. I table two documents, being letters sent to all members of the Legislative Council. The first one, sent four weeks ago on 11 April 2008, says:

The government priorities for the parliamentary sitting week commencing Tuesday, 29 April 2008 are the following bills in order of priority:

1. Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scheme Review) Amendment Bill (N0. 116)

2. Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Bill (No. 100)

3. Firearms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill (No. 108)

Then, on the 1 May 2008 I sent a letter saying:

The government's priority for the parliamentary sitting week commencing Tuesday, 6 May 20008 is the following bills:

1. Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scheme Review) Amendment Bill (No. 116)

2. WorkCover Corporation (Governance Review) Amendment Bill (No. 118)

Four weeks ago I informed all members, and it was repeated last week, that for the last two sitting weeks the government's priority was the workers rehabilitation and compensation scheme. So that this can be cleared up, I table the two letters, which were sent to all members.