Page 5653 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Does the Chief Minister now acknowledge that her assertion that the numbers actually increased when I was in government was wrong? I can table the figures if you dispute that.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, if Mr Kaine wishes to table the figures, we should ask him to do so.
Electoral System
MR STEVENSON: My question is addressed to Mr Connolly. I refer Mr Connolly and members to the motion moved by Mr Moore on 21 November that this Assembly call on the Federal Parliament to discard the discredited d'Hondt system and to provide the Senate electoral system for the 1992 ACT election. Will Mr Connolly, on behalf of this Assembly, brief ACT Senators Margaret Reid and Bob McMullan to support the replacement of the remodified d'Hondt system with the Senate system of optional preference voting below the line for the February 1992 election?
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, that has nothing to do with any of my portfolio areas of responsibilities and, as such, is not a proper question.
Interim Planning Legislation
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister. I remind the Chief Minister that the Interim Planning (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) was passed by this Assembly on 25 November 1991 and has been given Act No. 77/1991. Can the Minister advise whether the Act has been gazetted?
MS FOLLETT: To the best of my knowledge, no, it has not, Mr Speaker. But perhaps you would be in a better position to advise me whether you have dispatched it to me for gazettal. I do not believe that you have.
MR SPEAKER: I do not believe that I have, Chief Minister.
MR JENSEN: That is very interesting. I ask a supplementary question, then. Why has this Act not been gazetted some 7 working days after it was approved by the Assembly? As I understand it, you are the person responsible for signing gazettals.
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Jensen for the question. As Mr Jensen says, it is the case that I sign gazettals. I sign them on the advice of the Speaker. To the best of my knowledge, I have not received notification from the Speaker that that Act should be gazetted.
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