Page 4797 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 20 October 2010
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MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: So now the question is that the motion, as amended twice, be agreed to.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (7.53): I would like to move the amendments circulated in my name on the smaller piece of paper which is headed “Private members business notice No 5”. There are four items on that page, Madam Assistant Speaker but I seek leave to move three amendments together. I would like to treat them as four separate amendments, but only move three of them together.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Sorry, I am confused.
MRS DUNNE: Okay, can you consider that the—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I was on a different page. No wonder I am confused.
MRS DUNNE: Sorry. Are we all on the one page now? I seek leave to move amendments 1, 2 and 3 together.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I move amendments 1, 2 and 4 circulated in my name together:
(1) Insert new paragraph (2A):
“(2A) supports the objectives of National Water Week, which occurs from 17 to 23 October 2010, to raise public awareness and improve understanding of water issues in Australia;”.
(2) Omit paragraph (3)(a), substitute:
“(a) mount a public awareness campaign about permanent water conservation measures and the benefits such measures bring to the people of the ACT;”.
(3) In paragraph (4), omit “(c), (d) and (e)”.
Madam Assistant Speaker, this is again putting more of the content back into Mr Corbell’s amendment after he took some aspects out. I am not moving amendment 3 because Mr Rattenbury has already put that content back in. This is National Water Week. It is important. The rain has been falling, everything has been filling up et cetera. It is important to note that this is National Water Week and it is an appropriate time to be discussing these issues.
I believe that the words I am proposing for Mr Corbell’s part (3)(a) are better than the ones that are there. It is a bit of a moot point. Mr Corbell’s amendment says:
ACTEW and the Government are continuing comprehensive public awareness … to …inform ACT residents on the Permanent Water Conservation Measures …
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