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Budget—2020-2021 postponement
Debate resumed.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (4.31): Mr Gentleman has an amendment which is going to be circulated. I cannot move an amendment to my own motion without seeking leave, I understand, so the preference was that another member move the amendment.
The government will not be supporting Ms Lawder’s amendment. I foreshadow that Mr Gentleman will move an amendment, effectively on my behalf, so that it is administratively easier for everyone in the chamber, which the government will be supporting. That amendment outlines the dates and times when the government will be providing further information in relation to the financial position of the territory, including the financial report that is provided at the end of the fiscal year, together with the June quarter financial update.
The broader statement, as I indicated this morning and have indicated previously, will be delivered in August, after the commonwealth have provided their update, which I understand is 23 July. As—
Mrs Dunne: We could have done the executive business that we were ready for and come back to this.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Lee): Has Mr Gentleman’s amendment gone missing? It is being done now?
MR BARR: Yes, but we cannot vote on my amendment until we have dealt with Ms Lawder’s. So I am—
Mrs Dunne: But it has not been circulated.
MR BARR: Ms Lawder’s amendment was circulated during my speech on mine, so do not give me a lecture on whose amendment has been circulated.
Mrs Dunne: And you do not have form on that?
Mr Wall: Longstanding form.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Members! It is coming around now.
MR BARR: Mrs Dunne, without responding overly to your interjection, your suggestion that we cannot even talk about this now because an amendment has not been circulated is exactly the position we were in prior to lunch. You and I have both been in this place for a very long time and know that this does happen on occasion. What I am doing now is filling some time—
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