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The Prime Minister has written to me supporting the rolling over of the current special exemptions for a further 12 months; that is, until April 2008. The additional time will allow relevant cooperation programs to continue to address the remaining differences between Australian and New Zealand laws and regulations.

States and territories endorse the changes to the agreement’s special exemptions by gazetting the regulations in their respective gazettes or, in the ACT, by notifying the instrument on the ACT Legislation Register.

Actew Corporation Ltd annual report 2005-06—corrigendum

Paper and statement by minister

MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts): For the information of members, I present the following paper:

Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act, pursuant to section 13—Actew Corporation Ltd—annual report 2005-06—corrigendum.

I seek leave to make a statement in relation to this paper.

Leave granted.

MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I table a corrigendum to Actew’s 2005-06 annual report.

In October 2006, I tabled Actew’s 2005-06 annual report. Actew has since advised that there are two errors in the statistics table on page 21. The errors relate to 2006, total water consumption, reported as 69,090 megalitres and corrected to 54,340 megalitres and 2006 water consumption per person per annum, reported as 162 kilolitres and corrected to 149 kilolitres. I commend the revised table on page 21 of Actew’s 2005-06 annual reports to members of the Assembly.

Homelessness strategy

Paper and statement by minister

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Minister for Health, Minister for Disability and Community Services and Minister for Women): For the information of members I present the following paper:

Homelessness Strategy—Breaking the Cycle—second progress report for the period July 2005-June 2006.

I ask leave to make a statement in relation to the paper.

Leave granted.

MS GALLAGHER: I am pleased to table in the Assembly today the second annual progress report on the implementation of Breaking the cycle: the ACT’s homelessness


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