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failed to be able to mount an attack on what is indeed a very important motion in this place today. Will the minister now rectify the weaknesses in police strength? Will he start to support our police? Will the minister now begin to set the record straight regarding the truth about police numbers? Will the minister indeed apologise for misleading the house about the effective strength of ACT police?

Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Mr Pratt has just suggested that I misled the house.

MR SPEAKER: You cannot accuse people of misleading the house, unless by a substantive motion. Mr Pratt, if you have done that, withdraw it.

MR PRATT: I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. We will reserve our opportunities in another way.

Question put:

That Mr Hargreaves’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 8		Noes 7
Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves	Mrs Burke	Mr Pratt
Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald	Mrs Dunne	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher	Ms Porter	Dr Foskey	Mr Smyth
Mr Gentleman	Mr Quinlan	Mr Mulcahy

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Question put:

That Mr Pratt’s motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 8		Noes 7
Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves	Mrs Burke	Mr Pratt
Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald	Mrs Dunne	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher	Ms Porter	Dr Foskey	Mr Smyth
Mr Gentleman	Mr Quinlan	Mr Mulcahy

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

At 6 pm in accordance with standing order 34, the motion for the adjournment of the Assembly was put.

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