Page 2323 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 23 June 2010

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The Assembly voted—

Ayes 4		Noes 11
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Barr	Mr Hanson
Ms Hunter	Mr Rattenbury	Ms Burch	Mr Hargreaves
		Mr Coe	Ms Porter
		Mr Doszpot	Mr Smyth
		Mrs Dunne	Mr Stanhope
		Ms Gallagher

Question so resolved in the negative.

At 6 pm, in accordance with standing order 34, the debate was interrupted. The motion for the adjournment of the Assembly having been put and negatived, the debate was resumed.

Sitting suspended from 6 to 7.30 pm.

MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (7.30), by leave: I move:

Omit paragraph (3)(a), substitute:

“(a) ensure accurate information about the rationale and conduct of all culls is made available to the community prior to the annual commencement of culling;

MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Has that been circulated, Mr Rattenbury?

MR RATTENBURY: It has been circulated. The dinner break has given us an opportunity to have a conversation perhaps and catch up on some of the confusion that was in place just before the break.

MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Rattenbury. You have the floor.

MR RATTENBURY: Very briefly, this simply seeks to add to Mr Stanhope’s amendment in, I think, a non-conflicting manner a few further words that suggest the government make information available to the committee prior to the commencement of the cull and the rationale for the cull. It is probably in the spirit of what was intended and just spells it out a little more clearly.

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (7.31): Very briefly, while I understand the import of this, the Canberra Liberals will be opposing this—we will not be calling for a vote, because I can count—mainly because this is presumptuous on a couple of grounds. It assumes that there will be an annual cull and the spirit of the motion does not presume that. And I think that it is imprudent to flag, before a cull is about to commence, that you are about to commence a cull. I think the work done by the Chief Minister and his officials the other day in closing the reserves and then announcing the cull was the right thing to do and I think this goes in the opposite direction.

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