This week in State Parliament – 23 June 2016
In State Parliament this week, Liberal and National MPs highlighted the harm that communities will suffer from Labor’s attempt to hand control over the CFA to the UFU, as well as its breaches of the CFA Act, the Fair Work Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.
We moved in the Legislative Council to disallow changes to planning rules made the government to allow Skyrail to be built without following proper planning and environmental effects processes. However, the Greens sided with Labor to support Skyrail and by-pass normal safeguards.
We condemned the government for yet again delaying reforms to allow taxis and ridesharing such as Uber to co-exist, and committed to introduce our own Bill to legalise Uber when Parliament resumes in August if the government can’t reach agreement on its own reforms by then.
We introduced legislation into Parliament to create new criminal offences of car-jacking and aggravated car-jacking to help tackle the soaring number of car-jackings, on which the government has failed to act.
We also opposed changes the government forced through on the last day of sittings so in future Ministers will no longer be required to talk about government initiatives, projects or achievements when they make Ministers’ statements in the Legislative Assembly. This undoes one of Labor’s election promises and suggests that after just 18 months in office Labor has run out of initiatives, projects or achievements to talk about.