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TONY ROBINSON: Well the minister is always responsible for the presentations to cabinet,
so both at the early AIP stage and the second BAC stage, that’s the final approval. In
that interim period the minister would be consulting with the minister’s department
about the progress of the bill. The Minister would be coming, would be made aware of any
problems that are emerging about definitions or issues that other departments might have,
other ministers might have about the impact of that bill on the operation of those departments.
At the BAC stage the Minister will advise cabinet colleagues that the bill is now ready
to proceed into parliament, there maybe some discussion if there is still disagreement
amongst different ministers as to their department’s view on that bill. But if the minister can
satisfy the Premier and the other ministers that bill is ready to proceed and there aren’t
any problems then Cabinet will give that an endorsement and from that stage the bill is
then ready to come into the Parliament. The actual passage of it through the parliament
would depend on a number of things including the amount of legislation that the government
has before it and the opportunities with the workload already in place to get those bills
debated. But it really comes down to the Minister directly winning the approval of the Cabinet
to proceed to the next stage in every case.