(a) investigate the impacts of SEPP 14 on private landholders;

(b) review the effectiveness of the policy in achieving its objectives; and

(c) consider the payment of just terms compensation to citizens adversely affected.

(a) a co-ordinated opening up of church halls and community halls with appropriate and proper supervision for use by people who would otherwise have no accommodation;
(b) development of a code of conduct for police and security guards in regard to their role in safeguarding homeless people now and during the Olympics.

(a) The failure by the Country Labor Faction to be registered by the New South Wales Electoral Commission as a political party, despite the Premier’s pledge at Goulburn that it would be registered as a separate political party.

(b) The dissatisfaction within the left wing of the ALP and the threat by the left wing of the New South Wales Labor Party to expel any member of the New South Wales Labor Party who holds dual membership of two political parties, including any member of the ALP who joins the disaffected country breakaway Labor Party.

(c) The severe disagreement between various members of the left wing of the New South Wales Labor Party and certain members of the breakaway Country Labor faction.

(d) That a member of the breakaway Country Labor faction is now in St Vincent?s Hospital as a result of a severe bashing.

(a) savings of between $1.5 million and $2 million are to be found this year;

(b) the recently refurbished intensive care unit is not going to be used; and

(c) no major surgery will be done at Ryde Hospital.

(a) The constitution of the Court, and in particular:

(i) The composition of the Court, in particular the adequacy of the number of Judges and Commissioners appointed to the Court;
(ii) The need for continuing legal education and training for Judges and Commissioners reflecting the specialist nature of the Court and the expertise required.

(b) The jurisdiction of the Court, and in particular:

(i) Whether the Court is accessible to public interest litigants;

(ii) Any impediments to public interest litigants in accessing the Court.

(c) Exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court:

(i) The evidentiary procedures of the Court, particularly in light of the complexity and expense of expert evidence;

(ii) Whether Commissioners with specialist qualifications or experience should be appointed to hear only cases requiring that particular expertise;

(iii) Whether more than one Commissioner should sit on matters involving merits appeals.

(d) The adversarial nature of the Court, and whether the applicability of any other judicial models to the types of disputes which fall within the jurisdiction of the Court;

(e) Whether the Court meets the stated aims for which it was originally established;

(f) The adequacy and availability of legal aid to public interest litigants in the Court in environmental matters; and

(g) The adequacy of funding and resources of the Court.

(a) Legislative Assembly: one member supporting the Government nominated in writing to the Clerk of the House by the Leader of the Government; one member supporting the Opposition nominated in writing to the Clerk of the House by the Leader of the Opposition; one Independent nominated in writing to the Clerk of the House, and the member for Manly as Chairperson; and

(b) Legislative Council: one member supporting the Government nominated in writing to the Clerk of the House by the Leader of the Government; one member supporting the Opposition nominated in writing to the Clerk of the House by the Leader of the Opposition and two cross-bench members. In the absence of agreement notified to the Clerk, the Cross-bench representation on the Committee shall be determined by the President.

(a) The committee have leave to send any such report, minutes of proceedings and evidence taken before it to the Clerks of each House;

(b) The documents be printed and published and the Clerks forthwith take such action as is necessary to give effect to the order of the House; and

(c) The documents be laid on the Table of each House at its next sitting.

(a) the stance of the Government over the issue of fuel prices;

(b) the reported comments by the Minister for Agriculture in the Griffith Area News prior to the 1995 election that: “Country petrol prices would be brought down by a re-activated New South Wales Prices Commission if a Labor Government was elected” and “the Fahey Government had not utilised the Commission to regulate petrol prices and instead wiped its hands of it by passing it off as a Federal matter.”

(c) the comment by the Minister for Fair Trading in the House yesterday that: “ we must remember that the regulation of petrol is primarily a Commonwealth responsibility.”

(d) that the price of fuel in regional areas has skyrocketed.

(a) That the Nyngan Community is bracing itself for a devastating social crisis as a result of the imminent closure of the town?s main source of employment, the Girilambone Copper Mine.
(b) The question asked by the Member for Murray-Darling in this House just three weeks ago in relation to the Tritton Mine.
(c) The comments by Mr Barry Deans, the manager of the Girilambone Copper Mine where he claimed the mine may never open.

(a) The urgent need for Government to enact legislation for the use of traceable radio frequency tags for cattle.

(b) The European Union’s December deadline for the overhaul of the Australia’s cattle identification system.

(c) The enormous impact to regional New South Wales and the Australian economy should the European Union restrict the importation of beef into member countries.

(a) the State Government?s failure:

(i) to maintain adequate orthopaedic services;

(ii) to act on providing public ophthalmology to alleviate the travel and waiting times for elderly people needing cataract and other surgery; and

(iii) to act to offer other services in the local public system including urology and ENT, when such equipment and facilities are available nearby in the private hospital;

(b) cuts to availability of joint replacement surgery from 4 joint operations per surgeon per month to one joint per surgeon per month until further notice;
(c) the effect on 35 patients on one surgeon?s waiting list, pushing some patients to nearly 3 years of waiting;

(a) the Auditor-General?s finding that tenders of $5.8 million were accepted for Ashfield Police station just six weeks prior to the election without appropriate Treasury or Budget Committee approval;

(b) that the tender review process was completed in just three days compared to the average time of 4-6 weeks; and

(c) that the tenders were called prior to formal approval being given.

(a) the negative effect this will have on students preparing for their HSC and the widening disparity between Sydney and country students as a result of this increase in costs;

(b) the lack of consultation by the Government with affected schools; and

(c) that the Country Labor Party failed to do anything about these exorbitant fee increases in the Government?s cash for education scandal.

(a) the failure of the Minister to attend a public meeting held in Coraki to protest against the closure of nine rehabilitation and six acute care beds at the Campbell Hospital, Coraki;

(b) the associated jobs lost at the hospital and the impact this will have on Coraki and surrounding community.

(a) the failure of the Country Labor Party to secure adequate funding for the basic requirements of regional hospitals such as the Macksville and District Hospital;

(b) the admission by the Mid North Coast Area Health Service Director of Operations that in the current financial year the number of patients treated and discharged will have to be kept to the same level as the 1997-98 year, which will result in a blowout in the waiting times for elective surgery;

(c) the Macksville and District Hospital has overspent its budget by $800,000 or 14.3% and is being forced to refund the shortfall; and

(d) with concern, the imminent closure of 10 of the 56 beds at the Macksville and District Hospital and the results this will have on the quality of health care in the Nambucca Shire.

(a) the failure of the Country Labor Party to secure adequate funding for the basic requirements of regional hospitals and health services;

(b) the relationship between the Mid North Coast medical staff and the Mid North Coast Area Health Board has reached an historic low;

(c) that doctors at Kempsey, Macksville, Bellingen, Taree and Coffs Harbour have unanimously passed votes of no confidence in the Mid North Coast Area Health Board; and

(d) the failure of the Minister for Health to rectify the funding shortfall to the Mid North Coast Area Health Service which the Board publicly acknowledges is $36 million.

(a) the failure of the Country Labor Party to halt the economic rationalist agenda of the Government;

(b) with concern, the failure of the Country Labor Party to halt the loss of the jobs from Countrylink; and

(a) the extent which the weed Serrated Tussock (Nassella trichtoma) is endemic in Cooma Monaro Shire, and particularly in the Nimmitabel and Numeralla Landcare area;

(b) the occurrence of the weed in the adjoining Snowy River and Bombala Shires with these three shires joining forces to attack weeds on a regional basis;

(c) the infestation categories and the weeds impending spread potential;

(d) the occurrence elsewhere of the weed and its potential to devastate large areas of Monaro and the Southern Tablelands if left unchecked; and

(e) the inadequacy and dangers of the control measures currently promoted by the Department of Agriculture.

(a) the Government for failing to fill these needed positions in regional New South Wales; and

(b) the Country Labor Party for failing to stand up to the Sydney centric Government and for letting the Government cut money and jobs out of struggling regional communities.

(a) the Minister for spending more money on promoting himself with taxpayers money, than has been spent on helping regional communities such as Kempsey, Scone, Aberdeen, Lithgow, Blayney and Nyngan all of which have or are facing the loss of the community’s major employer; and

(b) the Country Labor Party for failing to inform the people of these communities about the Minister?s use of taxpayers money for his own political purposes.

(a) that basic health services are in jeopardy in Queanbeyan and Cooma despite some very high class facilities;

(b) with concern, the closure of beds at the Queanbeyan Hospital and the possible closure of the “Confused and Disturbed Elderly” unit and “Peppertree Lodge” following the current review;

(c) that the Southern Area Health Service received only a 4.3% increase in funding this year, below the State average of 4.6% and insufficient to overcome the $8 million loss incurred last year;

(d) the limited parameters that the Government and the Department of Health expect Southern Area Health Service to operate within; and

(e) the complete failure of Country Labor to identify these problems and influence the Government to immediately address the shortcomings.

(a) the claims by a Mid North Coast Magistrate that some young people in Kempsey are intentionally committing crimes so they can be flown to a juvenile justice centre;

(b) the Magistrate’s reported comments that he has several concerns as to whether young people are being coerced to commit crimes and feel safer in a detention centre, or if imprisonment is seen as a status symbol;

(c) the comments by Aboriginal elders in Kempsey agreeing with the Magistrate?s comments; and

(a) the Government’s handling of the New South Wales timber industry on the Mid North Coast;

(b) that the timber shortage is so severe it is costing jobs and creating massive social problems on the Mid North Coast;

(c) the recent problems encountered by the Great Lakes Council in trying to secure 25 logs from the local area to replace a timber bridge north of Bulahdelah; and

(a) the closure of businesses and services in Brewarrina due to the continued destruction of property by vandals;

(b) the closure of services and business in Brewarrina due to continued theft;

(c) with concern the offensive behaviour of people under the influence of alcohol in the streets and parks which are classified as alcohol free zones; and

(a) the imminent loss of jobs from the Bathurst Land and Information Centre;

(b) the Minister for Information Technology, Energy, Forestry and Western Sydney does not make people redundant, he restructures them.

(a) the concerns of the Dorrigo Veterinary Clinic in relation to massive price increases in the cost of Government veterinary laboratory tests;

(b) the lack of concern and action taken by the Sydney centric Country Labor Party; and

(a) acknowledge the impact of OJD zoning on property values and acknowledge that compensation should be payable for losses arising from these declines in value;

(b) outline in precise terms how much funding will be made available to producers affected by OJD zonings under the voluntary levy scheme and under what conditions compensation will be paid;

(c) also allocate substantial New South Wales Government funding for compensation purposes;

(d) in the absence of State funding, immediately review the need for the current arbitrary zonings which in some cases see properties divided by a few metres of bitumen; and

(e) immediately allocate adequate resources for Rural Lands Protection Boards to undertake the OJD responsibilities placed upon them by the New South Wales Government.

(a) the loss of two full time teaching positions at the Grafton TAFE campus and the loss of teaching hours for part time and casual TAFE teachers;

(b) the failure of the Sydney centric Country Labor Party to halt the downgrading of rural and regional education, by the Government which is further widening the gap between Sydney and country communities; and

(a) the failure of the Member for Murray-Darling to help avert industrial action by teachers in Broken Hill;

(b) the disruption to Broken Hill students when teachers walk off the job on Thursday 18 November 1999 and follow it with a series of two hour stoppages;

(c) comments from the Member for Murray-Darling to the local media about his concern over his Government’s handling of the situation;

(d) the stress caused to parents in Broken Hill when teachers walk off the job again;

(e) the Minister for Education has not met teachers to discuss the salary issue since 25 May 1999;

(f) the failure of SLAC (the State Labor Advisory Committee) to stem the crisis in the New South Wales school system; and

(a) that SLAC (the State Labor Advisory Committee) is the most appropriate acronym to come from this Government yet, given its handling of industrial disputes in New South Wales;

(b) the disaffection of the Unions with SLAC;

(c) the failure of the New South Wales Labor Party to secure a compromise deal with school teachers to ensure the education of children in regional and rural New South Wales is not further disrupted;

(d) the inconvenience and stress that will be caused to parents of school children in regional and rural New South Wales on Thursday 18 November 1999, when school teachers again walk off the job;

(e) that more than 10 million class room hours have been lost through industrial disputes this year; and

(a) confirmed last week’s attack by Labor backbenchers upon Dr Ken Boston and the Minister for Education and Training;

(b) regretted issuing a misleading donut press release on the teachers’ dispute;

(c) claimed he had been misled by the Government over the nature of the proposed teachers? award.

(a) that due to the staffing crisis in the Manning-Great Lakes Area Command, police officers have been working without pay and in their own time;

(b) the shortage of officers is due chiefly to the high number of police staff on long term sick report and officers drawn back from front line policing duties because of the reform process and budget cuts;

(c) that during the Sydney Olympic Games a quarter of the police force will be removed from the Manning-Great Lakes Area Command to come to Sydney to provide security during the Games.

(a) the Government for failing to provide additional police resources to the Manning-Great Lakes Area Command, despite it being 30% under its staffing capacity.

(b) the Sydney centric Country Labor Party for failing to convince the Minister for Police that regional New South Wales is just as important as Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong and entitled to have their regional area commands at full authorised strength 24 hours a day, seven days a week and for 12 months of the year.

(a) the failure of the Country Labor Party to secure adequate funding for the most basic requirements of regional hospitals and health services; and

(b) the recent comments by the Chairman of the Government?s committee investigating the need for multi-purpose centres in rural areas that the hospitals in many country towns were being held together only by paint.

(a) the withdrawal of emergency surgery from the Pambula Hospital;

(b) the withdrawal of operative obstetric services from the Pambula Hospital and the forced transfer of expectant mothers to Bega Hospital for emergency treatment; and

(c) the urgent need for management planning and strategies to ensure that trained nursing and theatre staff are available at Pambula Hospital to assist in these emergency procedures.

(a) the warning by volunteer bush fire fighters that they will consider not fighting fires unless they are legally protected; and

(b) the decision by lawyers representing the Rural Fire Service not to represent some individual volunteers at an inquest.

(a) the concerns of the CFMEU in relation to the Government’s application of “free market principles” in the pricing of electricity; and

(b) that the Union believes the application of such principles is a direct threat to the employment security of hundreds of power workers.

(a) the failure of the Country Labor Party to secure adequate funding for even the most basic requirements of regional hospitals and health services; and

(b) that as a result of inadequate funding, the breakdown of the main boiler at the Narrabri Hospital, which forced it to rely on a small backup system, resulting in hot water being rationed at the Hospital.

(a) the Government?s plans to downgrade Portland Hospital to a Primary Care Centre, which will result in the closure of 20 acute care beds, the loss of 10 jobs, the downgrading of the Hospital to a virtual casualty ward with restricted access hours during the day time only, the transfer of long term patients to other communities and the lack of after hours emergency facilities; and

(b) after community outrage about the plans to close the Portland Hospital, a consultation process with the Portland community was set up and is to be finalised before Christmas.

(a) because of the Government?s incompetence in managing the rural health service in the Greater Murray Area, the Health Service is set to close ten hospitals in the region over the Christmas, New Year period because of severe nurse shortages;

(b) the affected hospitals include Leeton, Tocumwal, Finley, Hillston, Junee, Tumbarumba, Urana, Culcairn, Henty and Jerilderie;

(c) that due to the tyranny of distance the entire southern region of the State will be totally under resourced during the Christmas/New Year period.

(a) the total failure of SLAC (the State Labor Advisory Committee) and the Government to stem the industrial relations crises sweeping New South Wales;

(b) essential professionals, including teachers, nurses and ambulance officers, are striking or threatening industrial action due to the Government’s inability to negotiate with them; and

(c) the Labour Council minutes of SLAC’s inaugural meeting in which it was stated that even the Premier is concerned about the way the teachers? dispute is being handled.

(a) elective operating list at Coffs Harbour Base Hospital had been cancelled;

(b) one in five elective surgery sessions at Coffs Harbour Base Hospital had been cut in an attempt to meet the budget demands imposed by the Mid North Coast Area Health Service;

(c) one patient on his waiting list (which exceeds 600) had been offered admission to Grafton Hospital for their procedure as there was no waiting list there and could be admitted within four weeks;

(d) another patient (concerned about the delayed diagnosis of cancer was offered a place in Newcastle.

(a) $1,500 on a consultant to provide expert advice on wall paper renovations.

(b) $901 on a consultant to provide an assessment of habitat of green and golden bell frogs at Culburra.

(c) $16,271.95 on consultants to provide advice on an analysis of bat calls.

(d) $100 on a consultant to provide advice as assessment of potential impact of car park on red crowned toadlets on Pittwater Road, East Ryde.

Authorised by the Parliament of New South Wales