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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (7 December) . . Page.. 3898 ..

MS TUCKER (8. 08):I move:

I am not going to die in a ditch over this amendment, but we thought the Assembly should consider in more detail how the sitting pattern will work in practice next year and how it interacts with the election in October. The sitting weeks in February and March are quite compressed, with four sitting weeks over seven weeks. Then there are the usual three sitting weeks in May and June to deal with the budget, a further three sitting weeks in August and a seven - week campaign period before the election. We are concerned that those three weeks in August are quite compressed.

I think we should be a bit easier on ourselves and provide a two - week break before the last two sitting weeks so that we will all have time to fully consider the likely rush of legislation and motions that will need to be finalised in those last two weeks before the election. It will be too late then to adjourn any outstanding items of business. There is already a long break in July before the August sitting weeks, so my proposal is that we push back that first sitting week in August to provide a bit more time before the last two sitting weeks.

Question put:

The Assembly voted -

Ayes, 7   		Noes, 10

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

Question so resolved in the negative.

Amendment negatived.

Original motion agreed to.

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