Page 3960 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 23 October 1990

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Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 15  NOES, 1

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly
Mr Duby
Ms Follett
Mrs Grassby
Mr Humphries
Mr Jensen
Mr Kaine
Dr Kinloch
Mr Moore
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to.

ADJOURNMENT

Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Nelson Mandela - Visit to Canberra

MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (10.06): Mr Speaker, today I had the great honour and privilege of attending the lunch which the Prime Minister hosted in honour of Mr Nelson Mandela's visit to Australia. I would like to inform the Assembly that there were hundreds of people at that lunch today. We had representatives from the diplomatic corps, from all churches, from the military, from politics of all sides. There were public servants, there were trade union people and other community representatives, and all of those hundreds of people were there in order to honour Mr Nelson Mandela and to honour, in particular, his fight over a great many years to abolish the apartheid regime in South Africa and to install a non-racial democratic government in South Africa.

Both the Prime Minister and the Federal Opposition Leader, Dr Hewson, spoke at the lunch today, and they both spoke in support of Mr Mandela and his efforts. In fact, there was

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