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system during that process. This is vital, unless we are to be faced with wholesale civil disobedience. I am of the view that the Government needs to at least announce its interim approach to this issue within the next two months. I thank members for their comments.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

COMPULSORY IMMUNISATION
Statement by Member

MR PROWSE: Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave of the Assembly to incorporate a little more than one sentence in the tabled document that I have just read from.

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Do you have the original document there?

MR PROWSE: The original document has been submitted to the Clerk and I would just like to add one sentence to make sense of the tabled document.

Leave granted.

MR PROWSE: The final paragraph on page 4 currently reads:

A New South Wales based group called Immunisation Investigation Group has been recently formed and it aims to record the damage to

The following words should be added:

children's health which has directly resulted from immunisation. To date, death, brain damage, permanent disability and ill health have all been reported to this group.

I thank the members.

HOME PURCHASE ASSISTANCE ARRANGEMENTS
Ministerial Statement and Paper

Debate resumed from 20 March 1991, on motion by Mr Collaery:

That the Assembly takes note of the papers.

MRS GRASSBY (4.00): Mr Deputy Speaker, in noting Mr Collaery's wide-ranging ministerial statement on a major reform of the ACT home purchase assistance arrangements, there are a number of points which I should like to make. Initially let me say that the Labor Opposition has no problems with the new administrative arrangements for the


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