Lees-Galloway IainHon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): Iain Lees-Galloway. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Sorry. Ha ha!Hon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: I have a first name. Thank you. That was an interesting call from the member Jami-Lee Ross. When one picks up the Land Transport (Random Oral Fluid Testing) Amendment Bill off the Table the member whose name this bill is in is interesting. I understand that the bill was actually drawn from the ballot in the name of the member Jami-Lee Ross and he subsequently transferred it to Alastair Scott perhaps in an effort to give Mr Scott something to do—I don't know. I predict that this bill will fail in the same way I predict that Mr Scott is likely to fail at the next election as well. Anyway I thank Mr Ross for contributing to the debate as he appears to be the author of this piece of legislation.I would make a second observation and that is that if this was a simple matter to address I am quite certain that the previous Government would have addressed it in its nine long years in Government. Everybody knows that the National Party is more conservative on these issues and had it the opportunity to legislate to introduce a comprehensive and effective form of roadside oral testing—or any other form of testing for that matter—for people driving under the influence of the drugs listed in this legislation it would have done so. It would have. I have that much faith. I don't have a huge amount of faith in the National Party but I have sufficient faith to believe that had there been a regime that could stand up to scrutiny that could be introduced by this Parliament or by a Government the National Party in Government would have done so. They didn't. Kieran McAnulty: Why?Hon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: Because there is no such regime and the technology has not sufficiently changed over the last 10 months for this Parliament to confidently introduce such a regime. And I know that the member in charge of this bill whether it be Jami-Lee Ross or whether it be Alastair Scott knows that and that the National Party is simply attempting to play politics with this matter.Now members will know—members who have been in this House for as long as I have will know—that I am a progressive on drug law matters. I do not believe that prohibition works. It doesn't work for alcohol and it doesn't work for a range of other drugs. But members will also know this: that I have no truck with anybody who drives under the influence of a mind-altering substance. I introduced a member's bill to reduce the drink-driving limit. Shortly after that the National Government introduced a bill to do the same thing; that's a good thing. This Parliament legislated to reduce the alcohol limit for driving and that was a good thing. Likewise I have no time for anyone who knowingly drives under the influence of cannabis MDMA methamphetamine or any other drug for that matter. If we had a simple solution for testing for those things I would support that and this Government would support that. But at the moment there is no test which stands up to any scrutiny and I know that the member in charge of this bill knows that.This is not a matter that ought to be dealt with piecemeal through a member's bill. This is a matter that this Government takes seriously. Now let's look at the situation that this Government inherited: a rising death toll on the road. For decades the road toll was falling. Under the previous Government the road toll began to rise again. That is a sad indictment of that Government's approach to road safety and it is something that this Government is absolutely committed to reversing. I know that Stuart Nash and Julie Anne Genter take the road death toll seriously and they're doing everything in their power to reverse the detrimental trend that developed under that previous Government. So we oppose this bill but we oppose it because we believe in evidence-based policy and we believe in reducing the road toll—DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member's time has expired.