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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 5031 ..

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

Motion (by Mr Stefaniak) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the adjournment debate extending beyond the 30 minute time limit.

Valedictory

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (10.12): I move:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

On this final night of sittings of the Third Assembly it is worth recalling what was being said in the corridors of this building in March 1995 when we took government. I well recall staffers of the Opposition leader of the day, Rosemary Follett, telling anyone who would care to listen that they would be back on the top floor by Christmas. There was no way, they said, that a seven-member Liberal Government could survive relying on the votes of a gaggle of Independents and Greens. Well, it is enormously satisfying not only to have survived but also to have seen two leaders of the Opposition pass through during that time.

Mr Berry: Three. I am the third one.

MRS CARNELL: Well, they have not passed three. He is still here, at least temporarily. The past 21/2 years have not been easy, Mr Speaker, but we on this side of the chamber have learnt a lot - I am sure all of us would agree with that - about ourselves, about our responsibilities and about trying to provide the best possible government that we can for the people of Canberra. We have not always got it right but, then again, who has? But every time we have not got it right we have learnt, Mr Speaker.

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