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Mr Berry: On a point of order; I refer to standing order 265, Mr Speaker. I think he has finished anyway. It does not matter.
MR SPEAKER: I would like to answer your point of order before we go on.
Mr Berry: I withdraw it.
Amnesty International
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (5.41): Since we will not meet again until Monday evening, I rise to record in Hansard, for historical purposes, thanks to Gary Humphries' staff for taking on the task of establishing a parliamentary group of Amnesty International within the ACT Legislative Assembly. Mr Speaker, representatives of the national office and local representatives of Amnesty will be present on Monday evening next to discuss with interested members and staff of the Assembly options for establishing a group. As all members are aware, Amnesty is a Nobel Prize winning human rights organisation which works on behalf of prisoners of conscience and against torture and capital punishment.
I am delighted that Stephen Wade of Gary Humphries' office has found the energy to put this together. I believe that he has built very usefully on the interest that many members of the Assembly have shown in getting this chapter established. I trust that the staff of the Assembly can join also with us in getting a strong and positive ACT parliamentary based Amnesty movement going because we live in a very informed Territory, close to the national Parliament and the diplomatic community, and we are informed enough to have effective involvement in all those issues which may affect the ACT, God forbid, but which certainly affect Australia and the Pacific rim countries. It is only a few days since a parliamentarian from the Solomon Islands was introduced in our Assembly.
I believe that this will work towards the exemplary nature of good government and will also assist, interestingly, in establishing closer bonds between members and the excellent and hardworking staff of the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 5.43 pm until Tuesday, 1 May 1990, at 2.30 pm
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