Page 1299 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 11 April 2018

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year to year, I am committed to growing and renewing the community and public housing sectors in the long term.

There is not a day that has gone by since I was elected to this place that I have not committed myself to ensure and to continue to ensure that there is better support for people who need it most. That includes public tenants. I am continually defending and speaking up for public housing tenants, no matter where they live in this city. I will do that again today. I am excited by the work the government is doing and the opportunity that all of us have to make a real difference for all Canberrans. I urge the Assembly to support my amendment to Ms Le Couteur’s motion.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 12
Mr Barr	Ms Orr	Miss C Burch	Ms Le Couteur
Ms Berry	Mr Pettersson	Mr Coe	Ms Lee
Ms J Burch	Mr Ramsay	Mrs Dunne	Mr Milligan
Ms Cheyne	Mr Steel	Mr Hanson	Mr Parton
Ms Cody	Ms Stephen-Smith	Mrs Kikkert	Mr Rattenbury
Ms Fitzharris		Ms Lawder	Mr Wall

Amendment negatived.

Original question resolved in the affirmative.

Blood donation regulations

MR STEEL (Murrumbidgee) (4.57): I seek leave to amend my notice on the notice paper.

Leave granted.

MR STEEL: I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) there is a shortage of locally-supplied blood reserves in Australia, with the National Blood Authority increasingly importing blood supplies from overseas;

(b) last year, the overwhelming majority of Australians and almost three-quarters of Canberrans rejected legal discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning Australians;

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