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as to where my support comes from. I would be more than happy in the 2008 election to make it very clear who the people are that choose to support my campaign.

I know, from discussions with Dr Foskey and, particularly, advisers that they have a similar willingness. They copped a fair bit of flak at the federal level over their CFMEU donation. But to give them one benefit on this issue, they have not tried to hide things. I think her proposal would have been desirable to tighten the reporting period. I have a problem with this idea of weekly reporting. It is too hard, I think, but cutting back the reporting to eight weeks after the end of the fiscal year would have been reasonable. But that will not happen tonight.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 61, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 62.

MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.06): I move amendment No 15 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 1776].

Again, this amendment is one of a series of amendments intended to undo the various changes in the bill related to disclosure.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 62, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 63 agreed to.

Clause 64.

MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.07): I move amendment No 16 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 1776].

This is now my routine amendment to omit a range of previously proposed disclosure proposals and to amend the disclosure threshold.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 64, as amended, agreed to.

Proposed new clause 64A.

DR FOSKEY (Molonglo) (11.08): I move amendment No 25 circulated in my name which inserts a new clause 64A [see schedule 2 at page 1781].

This is the one that Mr Mulcahy has already expressed his objection to, and I would be interested to hear what the Liberal Party says about this. This is in regard to weekly


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