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Wednesday, 8 April 1992

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MADAM SPEAKER (Ms McRae) took the chair at 10.30 am and read the prayer.

PETITION

The Clerk: The following petition has been lodged for presentation:

By Mrs Grassby, from 5,208 residents, requesting that the Assembly reject any attempt to permit the establishment of a free-standing abortion clinic.

The terms of this petition will be recorded in Hansard and a copy referred to the appropriate Minister.

Abortion Clinic

The petition read as follows:

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:

The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly that:

 ACT law prohibits free-standing abortion clinics;

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to:

 Reject any attempt to permit the establishment of a free-standing abortion clinic in the ACT.

Petition received.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992

MR HUMPHRIES (10.31): Madam Speaker, I present the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 1992.

Title read by Clerk.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Madam Speaker, the importance of the ACT's freedom of information legislation can be gauged, perhaps, by the fact that it took 10 years, two interdepartmental committees, a Senate committee and numerous fierce battles with senior public

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