Strange JamieJAMIE STRANGE (Labour): Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to talk on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill (No 2). I'd like to acknowledge the Minister Phil Twyford for the excellent work that he continues to do in the housing space. I'd also like to acknowledge the Hon Nick Smith who originally introduced this bill to Parliament. I agree with the previous speaker Andrew Bayly that the balance is important between landlords and tenants. Having been both a landlord and a tenant myself I feel like I've got the ability to view both points of view and I believe that this bill strikes a good balance as the previous speaker mentioned.The main aims of this bill are firstly to clarify the law in respect of tenant liability for damage and particularly around contamination as we've heard. In terms of contamination if we have a look at methamphetamine—which has already been raised and which is a key challenge that we're facing as a society. In fact it's a blight on our society. I was recently speaking to someone who works in this industry who goes into houses and does testing and he's come across many cases where methamphetamine—or P—had been present while children were in the house and the effects on these children are very damaging. So it's absolutely important and absolutely vital that we as a House address this in the best way that we possibly can.It's important that there is some regulation around the meth test. I recently purchased a house and a meth test was done. The report was that there were traces of P in the bathroom which seemed a little bit strange. Then a second test—SPEAKER: That's probably a better place for it to be really.JAMIE STRANGE: Yeah. I won't tell you who the previous owner was Mr Speaker. But there were traces of P in the bathroom and then a second test was done and there were no traces. The point here is that—SPEAKER: What the member had flushed?JAMIE STRANGE: Ha ha! The point here is that it's important we have clear regulation around P testing and this bill begins to start to address some of those key aspects. As we know this is the second reading of the bill and the Governance and Administration Committee considered this. There were a number of submitters and it's always important to hear from submitters. We appreciate people spending the time. The submitters represented a good cross-section of groups and individuals.Some of the changes that have taken place under that since the submissions are that—under the bill that was previously introduced landlords would have been able to evict tenants from meth-contaminated premises even when the contamination was not the tenant's fault. Now the Government believes that that was not fair and so the changes have been made to ensure that it is actually the tenant who has undertaken—I guess in this case it would be smoking P. That's about fairness. So the changes mean that landlords would not be able to evict tenants with seven days' notice unless proven the tenants caused the contamination. That's just common sense.Once the bill is passed landlords will be able to exercise a right of entry for the purpose of testing for meth without having to wait for the regulations to be made. So as I said at the start it does strike a good balance. It ensures that it must be the tenant who is smoking P but the second time it ensures that the landlord can quite freely check.This piece of legislation is part of a wider agenda around housing. I appreciate the work that the Minister's doing around housing and this is part of that puzzle. I commend this bill to the House.