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Question put:

That the motion (Mr Moore's), as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9  NOES, 5 

Mr Berry Mrs Carnell
Mr Connolly Mr Cornwell
Ms Follett Mr De Domenico
Mrs Grassby Mr Kaine
Mr Lamont Mr Westende
Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

UNIVERSITY COUNCILS - APPOINTMENTS

MR CORNWELL (11.36): Madam Speaker, I would like to make a small amendment to the motion on the notice paper relating to the appointment of Assembly nominees to the councils of the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. Do I need leave for that amendment?

MADAM SPEAKER: Yes, you do.

MR CORNWELL: I seek leave to delete the word "Assembly", second occurring.

Leave granted.

MR CORNWELL: I move:

That the Assembly instruct the ACT Chief Minister to immediately appoint nominees to the Councils of the Australian National University and the University of Canberra, thus resolving a twenty-month delay.

The reason for deleting that second word "Assembly" is that it was ambiguous. It was also misleading because in fact it is the Government's prerogative, not the Assembly's, to appoint either Assembly members or community members as nominees to these councils. So it was misleading and ambiguous to speak of Assembly nominees.

I rise to move this motion conscious that the Assembly has been, in my opinion, seriously embarrassed by a delay of some 20 months in any action being taken upon these nominees to the councils of the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. I remind members that it was the previous Alliance Government who, after a 15-month argument with the Federal Labor Government, won the right to appoint two nominees to each of these councils.

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