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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 10 Hansard (25 November) . . Page.. 3031 ..

MR OSBORNE: I thank members for their support in relation to this Bill. It has certainly been a long process. I thank especially those members who have had real problems with this whole issue for the last couple of months, in particular Mr Hargreaves and Mr Rugendyke, and lately Mr Moore and Mrs Carnell in relation to the attitude that they have had in regard to the final product here. Mr Speaker, I must admit that the approach made by Mr Moore on Thursday or Friday of last week certainly came out of the blue; but I have to admit that I think it was a very noble gesture on his part, to try to come up with some sort of compromise on the issues of this Bill. I thank him and I thank his staffer, Malcolm Baalman, for all the work that they have put into this Bill. I thank my staff and the hangers-on up there for their support, especially in the last couple of days.

Mr Speaker, the end result is that I do not have exactly what I wanted at the start; but it is certainly better than the alternative. I would argue that Mr Moore has achieved pretty much the same as I have. I do not want to put words into his mouth. He too does not have what he wanted; but it could have been worse. So, Mr Speaker, I thank him. I thank the members who are going to support this Bill. The debate has been long. I am pleased that it is over. That is all. I thank members for their support in this matter.

Question put:

That this Bill, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11	NOES, 6

Ms Carnell	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
Mr Hargreaves	Mr Quinlan
Mr Hird		Mr Stanhope
Mr Humphries	Ms Tucker
Mr Kaine	Mr Wood
Mr Moore
Mr Osborne
Mr Rugendyke
Mr Smyth
Mr Stefaniak

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) agreed to:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

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