Page 1372 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 25 March 2009

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Ayes 10		Noes 5
Mr Barr	Ms Hunter	Mr Coe
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Doszpot
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mrs Dunne
Ms Gallagher	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Hanson
Mr Hargreaves	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Question put:

That Ms Bresnan’s motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 10		Noes 5
Mr Barr	Ms Hunter	Mr Coe
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Doszpot
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mrs Dunne
Ms Gallagher	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Hanson
Mr Hargreaves	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Adjournment

Motion by Mr Hargreaves proposed:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Death of Dr William Robert Scowcroft

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Treasurer, Minister for Health, Minister for Community Services and Minister for Women) (6.42): I just rise briefly to talk about a man whose funeral I went to today, Dr William Robert Scowcroft, also known as Bill Scowcroft around Canberra’s circles, and to put on the record my condolences to his wife, Caroline, and his children.

The funeral, as funerals go, was lovely today. Norwood crematorium was packed out and we heard stories of Bill’s life growing up in West Wyalong and then the very adventurous life he led across the world. He was a very bright man who had a PhD. He was a geneticist. He worked for Campbell’s soups. He spent many years in California and then went off to Canada. He worked for the CSIRO. He spent time in Kampala and in Colombia and eventually came home to Canberra, or back to Australia, in 2001.

The reason I met Bill was that he was a lobbyist and advocate for the domiciliary oxygen scheme. Throughout Bill’s life he was a smoker and he did contract a

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