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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4911 ..

MR WHITECROSS (Leader of the Opposition) (11.07): Mr Moore asked where in the Government's response was there a reference to a renewal of leases for an administrative fee. I refer him to the Government's response where the Government indicated that they proposed to renew leases for an administrative fee. If Mr Moore took a bit - - -

Mr Moore: No. I said where in any of the documents? I was not talking about the Government's response.

MR WHITECROSS: This is one of them, Mr Moore. The one in your hand. It is in there. Have a look. Mr Speaker, Mr Moore suggests that I claimed that leases were not a contract. I did not claim that. Leases are a contract. If Mr Moore was a student of the law he would know that the law of Australia draws distinctions between contracts for different kinds of things. For example, the law regards contracts relating to land differently from contracts relating to other things. There are some very good reasons for that, because there is only one piece of land which is that piece of land. It is not like a Ford or a Corolla, or someone cleaning your carpets. There is only one piece of land which is that piece of land, and that is why contracts relating to land are different.

Mr Speaker, I repeat that these issues have been debated. If Mr Moore had been following the debate more closely over the last 12 months he would realise that the issue of renewal of leases for an administrative charge only has been in the public domain for some considerable period, and he would not now be claiming that no-one had ever suggested it before.

Question put:

That the amendments (Mr Moore's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 4	 		NOES, 11

Ms Horodny	Mr Berry	Ms McRae
Mr Moore	Mrs Carnell	Ms Reilly
Mr Osborne	Mr Cornwell	Mr Stefaniak
Ms Tucker	Mr De Domenico	Mr Whitecross
		Mr Hird		Mr Wood
		Mr Humphries

Clause agreed to.

Clauses 36 to 38, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

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