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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 4 Hansard (17 April) . . Page.. 1033 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

We all saw the way in which the building was damaged and defaced during that period. There was the cost of cleaning up. There was the cost of cleaning the stickers off the windows. There was the cost to the taxpayer of repairs to the air-conditioning of this building, which was deliberately sabotaged. There was the cost of cleaning charcoal from the front and members entrances after the bonfires run by picketers and, of course, there was damage to a fire exit and a number of other things.

As a government trying desperately to control and use, to the best possible advantage, the limited resources available to the Territory, we are concerned about that wanton destruction and waste. Mr Speaker, you might like to take as a question on notice, in effect, the issue of what that cost was to the taxpayer.

Mrs Carnell: And whether the unions should get a bill.

MR HUMPHRIES: That is another matter also, Mr Speaker, that you might care to consider; but I would appreciate your taking that issue on notice and getting back to me about that.

MR SPEAKER: Very well, Mr Humphries; I will take that on notice and see what I can find out for you.

MR HUMPHRIES: I certainly hope that we can avoid those things in future; but I think that the community needs to know what the cost of that particular incident was.

MR SPEAKER: I will take that on notice and see what I can find out for you.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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