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Friday, 26 June 1998
Page: 4222


Senator COONEY (11:08 AM) —Senator Schacht was taken to task because the opposition amendments on 1041 used the expression `stevedoring companies'. When I say `taken to task', I mean that he was asked about that as if that was a concept that needed to be defined. But the Democrat amendments on page 1054, for example, talk about stevedoring industries, and the definition in the bill itself talks about stevedoring industries. The government amendments talk about stevedoring work. Everybody knows what is meant by stevedoring companies or industries or work. It seems a very interesting point to take, that when the opposition tries to bring some rectitude to the way this money is going to be spent, people suddenly find that it is very difficult to get the concept of what stevedoring is all about when the whole debate has been based on that concept. It seems to me quite clear what opposition amendments Nos 1, 3 and 4 talk about. People should not slide away from that simply because they suddenly find it difficult to understand what `stevedoring' means.