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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4449 ..

MR SPEAKER: All right; so, you are now calling for a division on the question?

Mr Whitecross: That is right, Mr Speaker; in accordance with the standing orders. Perhaps that is why we are moving the motion.

Question put:

That the question be now put.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11	 NOES, 5

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

Original question resolved in the negative.

MR MOORE: My question is to the Chief Minister and Treasurer and follows a question that Mr Hird asked earlier. I indicate that I gave the Chief Minister a small amount of notice that I would be asking a question on facts and figures, so that she could have them in front of her. How much revenue, on an annual basis, would have been available to the Territory if we had adopted taxation policies on poker machine licences to match those in operation across the border in New South Wales?

MRS CARNELL: Thank you, Mr Moore, for giving me a bit of time to get the information here. As I understand it, New South Wales announced in their budget - and they brought down their budget on the same day as we did, as everyone would remember - that they would change gaming machine tax to a sliding scale which meant

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