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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3326 ..

Question put:

That the amendment (Mr Berry's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 5		 NOES, 9

	Mr Berry	Mrs Carnell
	Ms McRae	Mr Cornwell
	Ms Reilly	Mr Humphries
	Mr Whitecross	Mr Kaine
	Mr Wood		Mrs Littlewood
			Mr Moore
			Mr Osborne
			Mr Stefaniak
			Ms Tucker

MR MOORE (4.19): I address my comment to Mr Berry, through you, Mr Speaker. There is time to save face, Wayne. Just withdraw the motion.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (4.19): Mr Moore, if it would let you off the hook, you would hope that I would withdraw the motion. We expect Mr Moore to support the conservatives, because that is where he comes from.

MR SPEAKER: Relevance!

MR BERRY: Well-off, middle-class people do not care about the wages and working conditions of people who are struggling out there in the economy, such as the people working in this area we are concerned with, the community services area, who are on the lowest range of wages, Mr Moore. They earn much less than you earn. I am deeply disappointed that you do not support this struggle.

Mrs Carnell, when she spoke, just dug the hole deeper. I am pleased that at least she has now said that she will accept and put the Assembly's position to the commission in the Government's submission. For that to occur, I suspect that the Chief Minister is going to have to withdraw the form that she has used in the application and submit a new form, a form which reads "Australian Industrial Relations Commission: Application for Common Rule". That is the form you will have to submit, Chief Minister, now that you have decided to go the other way, not the form you used and did not tell us about yesterday, the form which reads "Australian Industrial Relations Commission: Notice of Appearance to Object to an Application for Common Rule". You will have to withdraw that one and put a new one in. If you do not, you will not be carrying forward the decision of this Assembly.

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