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unusual that such a comment was made. I thank the members of the Alliance for supporting the right of private members' business to go ahead.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Stevenson. I am sure we will all come to your spontaneous demonstration at 5.30 on the 24th.
MRS GRASSBY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I thought you might say that, Mrs Grassby. How do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MRS GRASSBY: That is not what I said. When we get a copy of the Hansard I am sure that Mr Stevenson will have to apologise for it because that is not what I said. I said that we want to work over the dinner break and give the Government some work to do. They have done nothing all this week.
Amendment negatived.
Motion agreed to.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES - SELECT COMMITTEE
Membership
MR STEVENSON, by leave: I move:
That Mr Stevenson be discharged from attending the Select Committee on Cultural Activities and Facilities.
Mr Speaker, there are a number of reasons for this. The cultural activities committee was formed in August last year; its members included Mr Duby, Mr Moore and a couple of others. Because of the change of the committee structure in this Assembly Mr Moore was taken off that committee and I was put on. It was unfortunate that I was not actually asked if I wanted to - - -
Mr Duby: You are in favour of the draft.
Dr Kinloch: It is the people's will.
MR STEVENSON: That is right; it is the will of the people. I think that the will of the people of Canberra is to have me use my time on other matters of even greater importance to them. That is not putting down the importance of cultural activities and facilities but I think most people in Canberra agree there are matters that have an even greater importance. Notwithstanding the fact that I was not asked on to the committee, apparently Mr Moore was not asked off the committee. It sounds like some of the public service facilities in New South Wales when I was a member
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