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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 6 Hansard (15 June) . . Page.. 1949 ..


MR MOORE (continuing):

before the Senate that changes the $1,500 mark to $5,000. If you agree with a slave scheme, you will have the advantage of going to $5,000. It might be knocked off and it might be that other things will be passed by the Commonwealth but, whatever it is, all that will happen is that the parties, instead of slaving at doing the huge amount of work that they have to do, spending hours upon hours, days upon days and weeks upon weeks, will be able to take the work where they have spent hours, days and weeks slaving on the Commonwealth return which requires a declaration of over $5,000 in gifts unless the loopholes apply and just hand it in.

To be consistent, Mr Stanhope has to support this amendment of mine to prevent us being slaves of Commonwealth legislation that can change at any time. No matter what it is, we would be handing over the power to the Commonwealth and just support its legislation, doing so at a time when Mr Beazley is saying that it has terrible flaws in it. I have to say that we are expecting the Labor Party to be consistent with the argument that was put by Mr Stanhope earlier today.

Question put:

That Mr Moore's amendment to Mr Stefaniak's amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted-


	Ayes 5  		Noes 10

 Mr Kaine		Mr Berry  	Mr Quinlan
 Mr Moore     		Mrs Burke  	Mr Smyth
 Mr Osborne    		Mr Corbell  	Mr Stanhope 
 Mr Rugendyke    	Mr Cornwell  	Mr Stefaniak
 Ms Tucker    		Mr Humphries  	Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the negative.

Mr Moore's amendment to Mr Stefaniak's amendment negatived.

MR MOORE (Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services) (10.46): I ask for leave to move amendment No 6 circulated in my name to Mr Stefaniak's amendment No 3.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE

: I move amendment No 6 [see schedule 8, part 1, at page 1993] to Mr Stefaniak's amendment No 3. In speaking to the amendment, I should draw members' attention to the fact that the other amendments that were on my sheet have now become redundant because they were consequential upon the original amendments that were lost. This is the last amendment that I will be moving in this regard. I use the opportunity to mention to members that I supported clause 9 because of an argument which Mr Stanhope put in the debate there and which I thought was persuasive about not having a slave clause to clause 10. Considering the fact that he has been inconsistent in his approach, I intend to seek the recall of clause 9 when we get to the end of this bill, which would mean the recall of clauses 9 and 10, in order to reverse my vote on them. I hope that the crossbench members will join me in that vote.


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