DOCSLIB.ORG

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Friday, 21St May, 1993

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Friday, 21St May, 1993 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Friday, 21st May, 1993 ______ Mr Speaker (The Hon. Kevin Richard Rozzoli) took the chair at 9 a.m. Mr Speaker offered the Prayer. PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT (SPECIAL DIVIDENDS) AMENDMENT BILL Bill introduced and read a first time. Second Reading Mr J. H. MURRAY (Drummoyne) [9.6]: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The aim of this bill is to end the Government's dividend raids, through its demands for payment of special dividends by various government trading enterprises, commonly known as GTEs. The object of the bill is to require dividends payable by the principal GTEs, such as the Maritime Services Board, State Rail Authority, State Transit Authority, ELCOM, the Water Board and county councils to be calculated in accordance with a predetermined formula prescribed by regulation. It also provides that asset purchases from the State by those authorities are to be referred to the Auditor-General and the Public Accounts Committee if the payment is in excess of $1 million and does not represent an official dividend or repayment of capital. Also, a report will be required to be made to the Parliament on whether the payment is a fair price for that asset. The dividend of a GTE is not to exceed the dividend calculated in accordance with the formula prescribed by regulation. Under the provisions of the bill, different formulas may be set for different authorities, but the Government will not be able to camouflage special dividends through bogus asset sales or capital repayments. If the Government wants to draw additional funds from GTEs - these special dividends which are part of the Government's armour at the moment - it will have to do so by means of special taxing legislation that will need the approval of this Parliament. The GTEs should not be used as de facto tax collectors for the Government. Their charges in many cases are already far too high. Those charges are damaging the economic prospects of New South Wales and hurting hard. Mr Hartcher: What rubbish! Mr J. H. MURRAY: The Minister does not believe that our water prices which are the highest in Australia - and which, by world comparison, are extremely high - are not damaging small business in New South Wales. The Minister is out of touch. As Minister for the Environment he should know more about what is happening in the economy. High charges are damaging the State's economic prospects and hurting hard-pressed consumers. If the Government wants to raise taxes it must seek approval from Parliament. Honourable members will recall Premier Fahey's edict to Government business enterprises - to aim at a target rate of return on shareholders' funds and or to pay 50 per cent on their profit as dividend. Unfortunately, the Fahey Government has gone further and is making unheralded demands for special dividends. This has proved unsettling for GBEs, which are feeling the impact on the disruption of the business plans. Many such organisations, when established, were established with the good will of the Opposition. In fact, the Opposition set up plans for corporatisation of many of these organisations. The House will also recall the actions of Mr David Harley, the Chairman of the Sydney Water Board. He was a Government appointee. When Mr Harley took on the Government he did so with some fervour. Last year he resigned when his organisation was directed to return $100 million to the Treasury. His resignation letter, which was obtained under freedom of information legislation and was not given readily by this Government, expressed concern that the $100 million approximated the funds raised by the Sydney Water Board's special environment levy. The Fahey Government's demand and receipt of a second $100 million from the Sydney Water Board has been overlooked. In other words, the Sydney Water Board has been stripped of $200 million in special dividends over two years. This is totally outrageous. It has been done without the knowledge of Parliament. The only people who knew anything about it were the Minister in charge of the Water Board and the Treasury. The people of New South Wales and the pensioners who are receiving quarterly bills for $164 discovered, when they looked at their bills, that $160 was for infrastructure cost and only $4 was for water usage. Time and again I have explained to this House the process whereby the Water Board is nothing but a taxing authority. The bill introduced by the Opposition is aimed at protecting the interests of the families in western Sydney and the pensioners of New South Wales who are being ripped off unmercifully by this Government through its call for dividends from the major government trading organisations. Mr Hartcher: You do not even believe that yourself. Mr J. H. MURRAY: The Minister said that I do not believe it but I am here, when I would rather be at home, to protect the interests of small business, families and pensioners of New South Wales because of his Government's misuse of government trading enterprises. Though recent publicity has focused on dividends sought from the Water Board, the most notable example of the use of special dividends was the Greiner Government's 1990-91 demand that Page 2604 Elcom - now Pacific Power - pay a special dividend of $400 million. The GTE that faces the biggest hits in 1992-93 is Pacific Power, with projected payments in dividends and tax equivalents of $483 million. The story of the Government's policy in dealing with the electricity industry must wait for another day. Eventually, the people of New South Wales will have to pay because there is no way in the wide world that county councils and Pacific Power can carry out their maintenance programs and pay dividends. It is an example of raiding the hollow logs for a short-term gain. In the long run, maintenance cannot be put off. Raids on Prospect Electricity will result in power facilities throughout the State blowing up regularly, and power cuts in the Riverina and western Sydney. No maintenance on infrastructure will be carried out because government business enterprises are being asked to rip out the heart of their industry and give it to Treasury. If the Government's golden geese, the water and electricity authorities, are to operate as monopolies, they should be allowed to operate effectively. At the moment those monopoly industries are creating very strong cash flow and both are good little earners. New South Wales Government figures for the past two years reveal that the Sydney Water Board has produced rates of return on assets and shareholders' equity of 3 per cent to 4 per cent, but it must be remembered that not all Government accounting procedures show, in the real light, what the return is. In part, these low rates of return reflect the impact of write-ups which have increased the book value of Sydney Water Board's infrastructure asset from $6.5 million in 1990 to $12.2 million in 1991. Write-ups have increased the nomination on the rate of return on assets or equity and also affected many other areas, thus allowing the Government to introduce higher charges. If the Sydney Water Board used private sector accounting techniques it would have reported an operating return in 1991 of approximately 12 per cent, which is higher than the average of 7.4 per cent for companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. On that basis the Sydney Water Board generated earnings, before interest and taxes, of approximately $57,000 per employee, which is close to nine times the average operating earning of the ASX listed firms established at only $6,624. This does not mean that the Water Board has to have its operating capital ripped out but, in the long run, when all water lines and underground sewerage connections in Sydney are to be renewed, no money will have been put aside to do that. It is part of the Government's rationale for privatisation. When it occurs the Government will come into the House and say, "We have to privatise the Water Board. We, as a Government, cannot afford to fund the capital works required to replenish and upgrade the water reticulation system in Sydney". The reason the Government does not have funds and the reason it will want to privatise the Water Board is that it is ripping funds out of the Water Board to pay for the Eastern Creek fiasco of Premier Greiner and Premier Fahey of past years. And not only that. The new guru of the National Party comes into this place and tells honourable members that there is a new breed in New South Wales, the National Party now has accountants. Honourable members will assess how well the honourable member for Upper Hunter has performed as the Assistant Treasurer when the Budget is brought down this year, detailing the blowout in the deficit. The blowout is one of the reasons why special dividends are being ripped out of the heart of organisations that have world wide standing. The Water Board dividend call was nothing but a subterfuge. The board was a taxable milch cow, used to cover the inadequacies of the Government's poor economic performance. This is best illustrated in correspondence between Premier Fahey and the Minister responsible for the Water Board, the Minister for Planning in another place. Minister Webster announced that he was transferring assets of the Sydney Water Board to the Government a week after the denial that the Government was ripping off special dividends from the Water Board.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Essay Prepared by Historian Professor Paul Ashton
    1987: The Year of New Directions RELEASE OF 1987 NSW CABINET PAPERS Release of 1987 NSW Cabinet Papers 2 Table of Contents 1987: The Year of New Directions ......................................................................................................... 3 Dual Occupancy and the Quarter-acre Block ...................................................................................... 4 The Sydney Harbour Tunnel ................................................................................................................ 5 The Bicentenary .................................................................................................................................. 6 Sydney City Council Bill ....................................................................................................................... 6 The University of Western Sydney ...................................................................................................... 7 Casino Tenders .................................................................................................................................... 8 Chelmsford Private Hospital ............................................................................................................... 9 Workers’ Compensation ................................................................................................................... 10 Establishment of the Judicial Commission ........................................................................................ 10 1987 NSW Cabinet ...............................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • “The Things Which Must Be Done…” Aboriginal Incarceration: the Urgent Need for Aboriginal Community Solutions
    PERSPECTIVES “The Things Which Must Be Done…” Aboriginal Incarceration: the urgent need for Aboriginal community solutions. The Honourable Bob Debus AM August 2016 1 15 Authored by: Whitlam Institute The Honourable Bob Debus AM Bob Debus was a Member of the NSW Parliament from 1981 to 1988 and again from 1995 to 2007. He was a Member of Perspectives Federal Parliament from 2007 to 2010. He has held numerous portfolios in NSW including Minister for Environment (1999- Perspectives is a series of essays from the Whitlam 2007), Attorney General (2000-2007), Minister for Corrective Institute. Perspectives offers respected public intellectuals Services (1995-2001), Minister for Emergency Services (1995- an opportunity to canvass ideas and to put their views 2003) and Minister for Arts (2005-2007). From 2007 to 2009 forward on the policies that would shape a better, fairer he was Minister for Home Affairs in the Federal Parliament. Australia. The series is designed to encourage creative, even bold, thinking and occasionally new ways of looking Mr Debus was the National Director of the Australian Freedom at the challenges of the 21st Century in the hope that the From Hunger Campaign from 1989 to 1994. He is a former enthusiasm and insights of these authors sparks further lawyer, publisher and ABC radio broadcaster. thought and debate among policy makers and across the community. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. About the Whitlam Institute The Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University at Parramatta commemorates the life and work of Gough Whitlam and pursues the causes he championed.
    [Show full text]
  • Legislative Assembly
    21 March, 1991 ASSEMBLY 1503 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Thursday, 21 March, 1991 Mr Speaker (The Hon. Kevin Richard Rozzoli) took the chair at 10.30 a.m. Mr Speaker offered the Prayer. BILLS RETURNED The following bills were returned from the Legislative Council without amendment: Constitution (Legislative Council) Amendment Bill Constitution (Referendum) Bill PETITIONS Chullora High-temperature Incinerators Petition praying that the House reject the proposal to construct two high-temperature incinerators at 75 Anzac Street, Chullora, received from Mr Shedden. Albion Park Rail Pedestrian Crossing Petition praying that a pedestrian crossing be established on Tongarra Road, Albion Park Rail, in the vicinity of the Albion Park Rail Public School, received from Mr Rumble. Albion Park Rescue Helicopter Service Petition praying that the House ensure that the rescue and emergency helicopter service stationed at Albion Park and serving the communities of the South Coast be retained at its present level of service, received from Mr Rumble. Rockdale-Banksia Traffic Petition praying that the House reject the proposals of the Roads and Traffic Authority for Rockdale and Banksia, received from Mr Unsworth. Pacific Highway Roadworks Petition praying that the House request the Minister for Roads to honour the promise to complete work on the Swansea S-bends by 1991, received from Mr Welsh. Rockdale Police Station Petition praying that full police services be maintained at Rockdale police station, received from Mr Unsworth. 1504 ASSEMBLY 21 March, 1993 Royal Agricultural Society Showground Petition praying that the House will prevent the sale by the Government of foreshore and public parklands, including the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, the E.
    [Show full text]
  • Frank Walker Memorial Lecture 2016
    New South Wales Society of Labor Lawyers The Second Frank Walker Memorial Lecture “The Things That Must Be Done…” ** Some Genuine Decision-Making Power: Dealing with the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the prison system Bob Debus 16 February 2016 Last year Judge Greg Woods presented the inaugural Frank Walker Memorial Lecture. He gave an account of the exceptional range and lasting significance of the reform of the justice system and the expansion of civil liberty achieved during Frank’s term as Attorney General and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs1 Greg was head of the Criminal Law Review Division of the Attorney General’s Department during a good deal of that time. The abolition of the Division last year took place within the new Justice Superministry in which the Minister for Police is senior to the Attorney General. That is a constraint on the role of the Attorney General for which I can find no precedent in the history of New South Wales. A Generation Ago I first met Frank Walker in 1971 at a meeting concerning what was to become the Redfern Aboriginal Legal Service. He was 29, recently elected to the previously safe Liberal seat of Georges River and yet to tune his political and parliamentary skills to their later concert pitch but his driving conviction and courage were evident: also his proclivity for conspiracy. We were not to tell Patrick Darcy Hills, the leader of the Labor Party about the meeting, for he would not approve. I did not at the time know of Frank’s life-defining childhood spent living with tribal people in New Guinea; nor of his youth in the Coffs Harbour District, ** “Perhaps when we recognize what we have in common we will see the things that must be done – the practical things.” Prime Minister Paul Keating, speech at Redfern Park, 10/12/1992 1Attorney General 1976/83, Minister for Justice 1978/83, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1981/84 1 where he was bashed by police for sitting with Aboriginal people in the roped off section of the Bowraville Picture Show.
    [Show full text]
  • NSW By-Elections 1965-2005
    NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICE New South Wales By-elections, 1965 - 2005 by Antony Green Background Paper No 3/05 ISSN 1325-5142 ISBN 0 7313 1786 6 September 2005 The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the New South Wales Parliamentary Library. © 2005 Except to the extent of the uses permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including information storage and retrieval systems, with the prior written consent from the Librarian, New South Wales Parliamentary Library, other than by Members of the New South Wales Parliament in the course of their official duties. New South Wales By-elections, 1965 - 2005 by Antony Green NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICE David Clune (MA, PhD, Dip Lib), Manager..............................................(02) 9230 2484 Gareth Griffith (BSc (Econ) (Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD), Senior Research Officer, Politics and Government / Law .........................(02) 9230 2356 Talina Drabsch (BA, LLB (Hons)), Research Officer, Law ......................(02) 9230 2768 Lenny Roth (BCom, LLB), Research Officer, Law ...................................(02) 9230 3085 Stewart Smith (BSc (Hons), MELGL), Research Officer, Environment ...(02) 9230 2798 John Wilkinson (MA, PhD), Research Officer, Economics.......................(02) 9230 2006 Should Members or their staff require further information about this publication please contact the author. Information about Research Publications can be found on the Internet at: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/WEB_FEED/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryPublications Advice on legislation or legal policy issues contained in this paper is provided for use in parliamentary debate and for related parliamentary purposes.
    [Show full text]
  • Frank Walker Memorial Lecture 2016
    New South Wales Society of Labor Lawyers The Second Frank Walker Memorial Lecture “The Things That Must Be Done…” ** Some Genuine Decision-Making Power: Dealing with the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the prison system Bob Debus 16 February 2016 Last year Judge Greg Woods presented the inaugural Frank Walker Memorial Lecture. He gave an account of the exceptional range and lasting significance of the reform of the justice system and the expansion of civil liberty achieved during Frank’s term as Attorney General and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs1 Greg was head of the Criminal Law Review Division of the Attorney General’s Department during a good deal of that time. I observe that the abolition of the Division last year took place within the new Justice Superministry in which the Minister for Police is senior to the Attorney General. That is a constraint on the role of the Attorney General for which I can find no precedent in the history of New South Wales. A Generation Ago I first met Frank Walker in 1971 at a meeting concerning what was to become the Redfern Aboriginal Legal Service. He was 29, recently elected to the previously safe Liberal seat of Georges River and yet to tune his political and parliamentary skills to their later concert pitch but his driving conviction and courage were evident: also his proclivity for conspiracy. We were not to tell Patrick Darcy Hills, the leader of the Labor Party about the meeting, for he would not approve. I did not at the time know of Frank’s life-defining childhood spent living with tribal people in New Guinea; nor of his youth in the Coffs Harbour District, ** “Perhaps when we recognize what we have in common we will see the things that must be done – the practical things.” Prime Minister Paul Keating, speech at Redfern Park, 10/12/1992 1Attorney General 1976/83, Minister for Justice 1978/83, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1981/84 1 where he was bashed by police for sitting with Aboriginal people in the roped off section of the Bowraville Picture Show.
    [Show full text]
  • Factions and Fractions: a Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party
    Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 427– 448 Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party ANDREW LEIGH Of ce of the Shadow Minister for Trade, Canberra Over the past three decades, factions have cemented their hold over the Australian Labor Party. This has largely been due to the entrenchment of the proportional representation of factions. One of the effects of the institutionalisa- tion of factions has been the development of factional sub-groupings (‘frac- tions’). This article analyses the phenomenon by looking at a case study of a single ALP faction—the Left in New South Wales. Since 1971, two major fractions have developed in the NSW Left, based on ideological disagreements, personality con icts, generational differences and arguments over the role of the union movement in the ALP. This development parallels the intra-factional splits that have occurred in many other sections of the Labor Party. Yet the factional system in the 1980s and 1990s operated relatively effectively as a means of managing power. The question now is whether it can survive the challenge of new issues that cross-cut traditional ideological lines. Introduction Factionalism in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) is a phenomenon much remarked upon, but little analysed. Like the role of the Ma a in Italian politics, few outside the system seem to understand the power networks, whilst few inside are prepared to share their thoughts with the outside world. Yet without understanding factions, it is impossible to properly comprehend the Labor Party. Every organisation, and certainly every political party, contains organised power groupings.
    [Show full text]
  • Legislative Assembly
    8864 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Tuesday 10 October 2000 ______ Mr Speaker (The Hon. John Henry Murray) took the chair at 2.15 p.m. Mr Speaker offered the Prayer. ASSENT TO BILLS Assent to the following bills reported: Smoke-free Environment Bill Plant Diseases Amendment Bill Westpac Banking Corporation (Transfer of Incorporation) Bill BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE Precedence of Business: Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders Motion by Mr Whelan agreed to: That standing and sessional orders be suspended to allow: (1) the Premier to move a motion at the conclusion of question time congratulating all persons involved in the preparation and staging of the Sydney Olympic Games; and (2) the following speaking times to apply: Premier - unlimited Leader of the Opposition - unlimited Minister for the Olympics - unlimited Shadow Minister for the Olympics - unlimited All other members - 15 minutes each. PARLIAMENTARY STAFF OLYMPICS EFFORTS Mr SPEAKER: Before the House deals with other Government business, I want to acknowledge the efforts of the parliamentary staff over the Olympic period. Members may not be aware that over the last 2½ weeks the Parliament has hosted over 4,500 members of the Olympic family, including the competitors and officials from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Kazakhstan, China, The Ukraine, Macedonia, Switzerland, Ghana and St Lucia, as well as the national Olympic committees of the United States of America, New Zealand, Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Also, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport chose Parliament House for its official function, and a number of visiting heads of State were also hosted.
    [Show full text]
  • Preaching to the Perverted
    PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL GLYNN. Author: Dominic O’Grady Copyright: Dominic O’Grady. 2012. Michael Glynn, 1980. Photo courtesy of the Star. 1 Table of contents Prologue 1 Mr Leather 1980 8 2 The Harlem Hideaway 14 3 A Star is born 18 4 Mardi Gras madness 24 5 The Syndicate rules 33 6 Getting elected 44 7 Clones & community 52 8 Lesbian inclusion 60 9 A walk on the violent side 66 10 Religion, spirituality and universal joy 74 11 When push comes to shove 82 12 We need to learn from the dead 87 13 The last chapter 92 Epilogue 100 Reference list Acknowledgements 2 Prologue Michael Glynn was found dead in his Glebe Housing Commission terrace on Wednesday 10 July 1996. To paraphrase Auden’s Funeral Blues, no one stopped the clocks or held the presses. It was deadline day, after all, and the page proofs for that week’s edition of the Sydney Star Observer – the newspaper Glynn founded almost two decades earlier – had to be at the printers by 6pm. It wasn’t until the following day that reports of Glynn’s death filtered into the Star office on Oxford Street, a noisy thoroughfare lined with gay bars and clubs and known as Sydney’s golden mile. Glynn had emigrated to Australia from the USA in 1971. He was a good- looking 23-year-old then, still shy about embracing his sexuality but aware, after seeing in Boston the surf film Endless Summer, that Australia had erotic appeal. “The guys in Endless Summer were travelling around the world, following the sun and the surf,” Glynn recalled in an interview with a former editor of the Star, Larry Galbraith.
    [Show full text]
  • House of Representatives Official Hansard No
    COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES House of Representatives Official Hansard No. 10, 2009 Monday, 22 June 2009 FORTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT FIRST SESSION—FIFTH PERIOD BY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INTERNET The Votes and Proceedings for the House of Representatives are available at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/info/votes Proof and Official Hansards for the House of Representatives, the Senate and committee hearings are available at http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard For searching purposes use http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au SITTING DAYS—2009 Month Date February 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26 March 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 May 12, 13, 14, 25, 26, 27, 28 June 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 August 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 September 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17 October 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 November 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 RADIO BROADCASTS Broadcasts of proceedings of the Parliament can be heard on ABC NewsRadio in the capital cities on: ADELAIDE 972AM BRISBANE 936AM CANBERRA 103.9FM DARWIN 102.5FM HOBART 747AM MELBOURNE 1026AM PERTH 585AM SYDNEY 630AM For information regarding frequencies in other locations please visit http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/listen/frequencies.htm FORTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT FIRST SESSION—FIFTH PERIOD Governor-General Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, Companion of the Order of Australia House of Representatives Officeholders Speaker—Mr Harry Alfred Jenkins MP Deputy Speaker—Ms Anna Elizabeth Burke MP Second Deputy Speaker—Hon.
    [Show full text]
  • Connecting with the People: the 1978 Reconstitution of the Legislative Council – David Clune
    Connecting with the People: The 1978 reconstitution of the Legislative Council – David Clune part two Part Two of the Legislative Council’s Oral History Project President’s foreword It is hard to believe that less than 40 years ago the New South Wales Legislative Council was still not directly elected. Although the pre- 1978 Council did useful work as a traditional house of review, it is almost unrecognisable from the Legislative Council of today, with its wide representation, active committee system, and assertiveness around its powers. The story of precisely how the Council came to be reconstituted in 1978 is fascinating, and indeed essential knowledge for those who wish to fully understand the modern Legislative Council. In this monograph Dr David Clune tells that story, drawing on the memories of some of those who observed and participated in those dramatic events. This is the second monograph arising from the Council’s oral history project. The project commenced in 2013 as part of a series of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Legislative Council’s modern committee system. I am delighted that the project recommenced in 2015 and look forward to future monographs in the series. I particularly want to thank those former members and clerks who have given so generously of their time to contribute to the project. Most of all I want to thank them for their contributions to the history and development of the extraordinary and unique institution that is the NSW Legislative Council. This is their story. Don Harwin MLC President Preface and Acknowledgements This is the second publication resulting from the Legislative Council’s Oral History Project.* It is based on interviews with former members and staff of the Council.
    [Show full text]
  • Download the Full Paper As
    NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICE Background Paper No 1994/2 NSW Elections 1984 to 1991: A Comparative Analysis by Antony Green © New South Wales Parliamentary Library This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the Librarian, New South Wales Parliamentary Library. Inquiries should be directed to the Publications Officer, New South Wales Parliamentary Library, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000. New South Wales Parliamentary Library cataloguing-in-publication data: Green. Antony NSW Elections, 1984 to 1991 : a comparative analysis / by Antony Green. -- [Sydney, N.S.W.J: New South Wales Parliamentary Library, 1993. -- 1 v. (various pagings): ill.; 30 cm. (Current issues: background paper, ISSN 0817- 3796 I New South Wales Parliamentary Library ; 1994/2) ISSN 0817-3796 ISBN 724095632 1. Elections--New South Wales--History (LCSH) [ 1. STATE-GOVERNMENT-ELECTIONS-NEW-SOUTH-WALES-HISTORICAL- ASPECTS (Parliamentary thesaurus)) I. Title II. Series: Current issues : background paper (New South Wales. Parliamentary Library) ; 1994/2 324.9944 (DDC20) Published by the New South Wales Parliamentary Library. The Author Antony Green originally completed a bachelor of Science from Sydney University, with majors in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. After several years in the computer industry, he returned to Sydney University to complete a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in Government. In 1989 he joined ABC-TV as a researcher for the 1990 Federal Elction coverage, and has now worked on nine elections in all states of Australia. Following the 1990 election, Antony was employed by the ABC to re-design their election night computer software.
    [Show full text]