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Title: WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 1996

In Committee
Database: Senate Hansard

Date: 31-10-1996
Source: Senate
Parl No.: 38
Electorate: WA
Interjector: CHAIRMAN
Page: 4866
Party: G(WA)
Presenter
Status
Question No.
Questioner
Responder
Speaker: Senator MARGETTS
Stage
Type
Context: Bill
System Id: chamber/hansards/1996-10-31/0059

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- Start of Business
- PETITIONS
  - Child Care
  - Higher Education Contribution Scheme
  - ABC: Funding
  - Child Care
  - Sri Lanka
  - Child Care
  - Commonwealth Employment Service
  - ABC: Funding
    - Senator WEST
  - ABC: Funding
    - Senator ABETZ
  - Procedural Text
- NOTICES OF MOTION
  - Gun Control Campaign
    - Senator BOLKUS
  - Finance and Public Administration References Committee
    - Senator MURPHY
  - Member for Oxley
    - Senator BROWN
  - Wilsons Promontory National Park
    - Senator ALLISON
  - Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee
    - Senator BOLKUS
  - Uranium Mining
    - Senator MARGETTS
  - Mr Wang Dan
    - Senator BOURNE
  - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reconciliation
    - Senator KERNOT
  - Economy
    - Senator MARGETTS
  - School Closures
    - Senator ALLISON
- COMMITTEES
  - Selection of Bills Committee
    - Report
      - Senator PANIZZA
- ORDER OF BUSINESS
  - Government Business
  - DIFF Scheme
  - East Timorese Asylum Seekers
  - Uranium Mining
  - Community Standards Committee
  - Edmund Rice: Beatification
  - Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs: Funding
- GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
  - Senator CAMPBELL
- POVERTY
- BURMA
- BUDGET 1996-97
  - Consideration of Appropriation Bills by Legislation Committees
    - Reports
      - Senator TIERNEY
- INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT BILL 1966
  - Report of Economics Legislation Committee
    - Senator FERGUSON
- COMMITTEES
  - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee
    - Report
- INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL 1996 INCOME TAX (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 1996 INCOME TAX (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 1996
  - First Reading
  - Second Reading
    - Senator CAMPBELL
- NATIONAL HEALTH (BUDGET MEASURES) AMENDMENT BILL 1996
  - First Reading
  - Second Reading
    - Senator CAMPBELL
- BILLS RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- ORDER OF BUSINESS
  - General Business and Consideration of Committee Reports and Government Responses
- WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 1996
  - In Committee
- PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1996
  - Second Reading
    - Senator BOB COLLINS
    - Senator BROWNHILL
  - In Committee
    - Senator BROWNHILL
  - Third Reading
- DEFENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (No. 1) 1996
  - Second Reading
- APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) BILL 1996-97 APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1996-97 APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 2) 1996-97
  - Second Reading
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
  - Salaries of Senior Executives
    (Senator CONROY, Senator KEMP)
  - Howard Government
    (Senator CHAPMAN, Senator HILL)
  - Gun Control Campaign
    (Senator BOLKUS, Senator KEMP)
  - Electricity
    (Senator FERRIS, Senator PARER)
  - Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism
    (Senator FAULKNER, Senator HILL)
  - Great Barrier Reef: Fishing
    (Senator LEES, Senator HILL)
  - Jabiluka Uranium Mine
    (Senator BOB COLLINS, Senator HILL)
  - Jabiluka Uranium Mine
    (Senator MARGETTS, Senator HILL)
  - School Closures
    (Senator JACINTA COLLINS, Senator VANSTONE)
  - Superannuation
    (Senator WATSON, Senator KEMP)
  - Higher Education
    (Senator HOGG, Senator VANSTONE)
  - Austudy Regulations
    (Senator STOTT DESPOJA, Senator VANSTONE)
  - Port Hinchinbrook Development Project
    (Senator REYNOLDS, Senator HILL)
  - Social Security Shopfront Agency
    (Senator KNOWLES, Senator NEWMAN)
  - Jabiluka Uranium Mine
- COMMITTEES
  - Selection of Bills Committee
    - Report
      - Senator PANIZZA
- NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA
  - Senator CAMPBELL
- DOCUMENTS
  - Department of the Parliamentary Library
- COMMITTEES
  - Membership
- WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 1996
  - In Committee
- ADJOURNMENT
  - Higher Education Funding
    - Senator VANSTONE
  - Tasmania: Family Court
    - Senator MURPHY
  - Higher Education Funding
    - Senator STOTT DESPOJA
  - Euthanasia Debate Logging and Woodchipping
    - Senator ABETZ
  - Child Care
    - Senator LUNDY
- Adjournment
- DOCUMENTS
  - Tabling
  - Tabling
- PROCLAMATIONS
- QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
  - Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
    (Senator Margetts, Senator Hill)
  - HMAS Penguin : Diver Training
    (Senator Woodley, Senator Newman)
  - Indonesian Consulate in Darwin
    (Senator Brown, Senator Hill)
  - New Caledonia
    (Senator Brown, Senator Hill)
  - Logging and Woodchipping
    (Senator Brown, Senator Parer)

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Thursday, 31 October 1996
Page: 4866

Senator MARGETTS(11.49 a.m.) —There are many dictionaries with many definitions. I am talking about what is often the case in bills with a legal definition. Perhaps in some prospective court cases in the future various people will bring in various dictionaries if the word `fairness' becomes all that is left between them and annihilation in relation to a contract in which they are hardly an equal partner. So it is not just a throwaway line.

I want to know what legal definition the government is using. If there is not a legal definition, it is a very important point that anybody will be able to bring in any dictionary definition and perhaps the person with the best dictionary definition, or who is able to argue on the best dictionary definition, will gain ground in any court interpretation.

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