Australia is obligated to take back some radioactive nuclear waste from England, and the Federal government cannot override the States, but can override the Northern Territory. With the “Intervention” continuing, the Rudd government will find it easier to impose a radioactive waste dump on aboriginal land in the Northern Territory.

With a bit of luck, Rudd will be able to bribe a few aboriginals, and the whole thing can be done quietly, without much fuss from the ignorant and apathetic “dominant group”.
With a bit more luck, a few entrepreneurial types will be able to set up a continuing importing of overseas nuclear wastes as a lucrative Northern Territory business.

“But lo and behold, folks stopped packing their gear into trucks and moving to Qld. Folks even started moving back.”

And Katz, do not forget Joh Bjelke-Petersens' inheritance tax abolition ….. “leading to a steady flow of retired people moving from the southern states of Victoria and New South Wales to Queensland, particularly the Gold Coast. All other Australian states and territories had abolished this tax by 1981 in attempt to stem the flow of people to Queensland.”

That tax was about stopping 'some families' from making empires at everybody elses expense. When it went north, fairness in our society, did likewise.

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Would certainly upset the balance of power in the Senate if territories were given the same rights as the states, dont think anyone would ever vote to change the Constitution of Australia to allow that to happen.
Canberra would certainly vote almost 100% Labour Senators in and NT the same.
I believe NT was part of South Australia at one time, be very hard controlling such a large area from Adelaide, guess thats why the formation of NT.
ACT was formed so that no advantage to either Victoria or NSW in new Federal Government.

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Oy vey. I hope the educators in the Northern Territory don't get their hands on this report! Bilingualism is still pervasively understood as a danger to Aboriginal children having *any hope* of acquiring Standard Australian English. Never mind shocking living conditions, poor health and attendance as issues impacting on these children acquiring any education at all, let alone SAE…

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Absolutely awesome to watch this, heateh!

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My thanks to ACReN and to Assoc Prof Luke Nottage to making this information so accessible and assisting interested parties in accessing the 30 submissions made under tight and impossible deadlines made to the Senate's current inquiry into the TPA_ACL Second Bill.

As you know Prof Nottage, I have repeatedly acknowledged your work in my various submissions over the last four years to various public consultation arenas, including the PC's Consumer Policy Framework (subdr242parts 1-5 and Part 8); the PC's Review of Performance Benchmarking of Australian Businesses (parts 1 & 3), and similar submissions to the MCE NECF1 Consultation RIS; as well as other MCE consultations, the most recent being the NECF2 Package [NECF = National Energy Customer Framework].

My submission to the Senate (25, and several supporting Appendices) is one in a series of many to various arenas in which I have reinforced similar unaddressed concerns.

In my latest submission, that to the current Senate enquiry I have raised issues that have again and again been brought to the attention of public authorities and those deeming themselves to be unaccountable to the electorate or anyone else on the basis of their legal structure as incorporated bodies, despite fulfilling a public role.

This time I have “rammed” again the issues of failure to consider the fundamentals of comparative law within Australian provisions, acknowledging your own expertise in a much wider context, and emphasis on the need to consider Australian provisions in the context of world's best practice.

I am very concerned about the concertinaed timetable requiring that

“all the legislative text should be agreed by end-June so the states can also then enact laws to apply both Commonwealth Acts nation-wide and bring the entire package into effect by 1 January 2011.”

In the rush to meet these deadlines, I fear that the golden opportunity to get things right will be missed. Once matters are entrenched in black letter law they will be far more difficult to reverse. Failure to cover the ground from the outset will undoubtedly result in repeated attempts to return to the legislation to insert or remove provisions that have the potential to be incompletely covered.
An incremental and conservative approach to resolving glaring omissions from the NECF Package (as seems to have characterized its project management) in relation to consumer protection for several groups of end-consumers of utilities raises issues of parity and equity and is inconsistent with the plan to comprehensively and appropriately cover consumer protection needs of all Australians.

With respect to those whose philosophical approaches may be governed by conservatism, may I say that the time for “one-step-at-a-time” philosophies has come and gone. We need a more pro-active strategic approach in the public interest, anticipating and keeping up with continuing marketplace changes and consumer expectations. Let us not reach for the lowest common denominator in such expectations. I owe my bold stance to David Tenant and his frank views about the role and nature of consumer advocates, and to many others who have inspired me by the mere existence of their published writings.

The submission of Pharmacy Guild of Australia (in discussing Health Practitioner regulation, but applicable to other provisions in principle) p7 refers to the findings of the Queensland Scrutiny of Legislation Committee that:

“In the Constitutional Systems of the Australian States and Territories, Prof Gerard Carney provides a summary of concerns regarding the legislative scrutiny of national scheme legislation.

“A risk of many Commonwealth and State cooperative schemes is ‘executive federalism; that is the executive tranches formulate and manage these schemes to the formulate and manage these schemes to the exclusion of the legislatures. While many schemes require legislative approval, the opportunity for adequate legislative scrutiny is often lacking, with considerable executive pressure to merely ratify the scheme without question.”

Thereafter, in an extreme case, the power to amend the scheme may even rest entirely executive authority. Other instances of concern include, for example, where a government lacks the authority to respond to or the capacity to distance itself from the actions of a joint Commonwealth and State regulatory authority.

Public scrutiny is also hampered when the details of such schemes are not made publicly available. For these reasons, a recurring criticism, at least since the Report of the Coombs Royal Commission in 1977, is the tendency of cooperative arrangements to undermine the principle of responsible government. A further concern is the availability of judicial review in respect of the decisions and actions of these joint authorities.

Certainly, political responsibility must still be taken by each government for both joining and remaining in the cooperative scheme. Some blurring of accountability is an inevitable disadvantage of cooperation – a disadvantage usually outweighed by the advantages of entering this scheme. But greater scrutiny is possible by an enhanced and investigative role for all Commonwealth, State and territory legislation.”

“It would be disappointing if either CIOAG or the relevant Ministerial Council approved a set of interpretative principles without stakeholder input and presented to Parliament as a fait accompli.

The Pharmacy Guild has recommended that

“The Government should establish a clear mechanism that will allow interested stakeholders to make submissions on the nature of the proposed interpretive principles.

I support the Pharmacy Guild, Prof Frank Zumbo, Julie Clarke and all others who believe that small businesses have been entirely inadequately catered for both within the proposed generic laws and within energy provisions.

I would like especially support the Pharmacy Guild’s views on the issues of failure to adequately cater for small businesses, especially with regard to “unfair conduct, as the suggested appropriate threshold permitting small businesses access to trade practices law relief.”

On the issues of the complex mechanisms by which legislative drafting and Parliamentary sanction is achieved, I agree with the Pharmacy Guild that there is room for far more scrutiny and stakeholder involvement over the interpretative principles that are to be incorporated.

In the limited timeframe that the Senate has been allowed to consider the 30 submissions made, it is difficult to imagine how the task of weighing up discussion of perceived gaps can be effectively achieved.

I share the views of others that as much as it is time to bring an end of marketplace uncertainty, getting it right first up is a crucial issue if future detriment to industry and consumers is to be avoided in order to correct omissions and commissions that were not foreseen or considered because of the rushed timetable.

[Ed. - Due to space constraints on this Blog the second half of this Comment has been omitted but interested readers may be able to receive the full Comment from the author or can examine her Submission No 25 to the Senate Inquiry]

Madeleine Kingston

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