Page 1123 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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Question put:
That the amendment (Mr Moore's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 6 NOES, 10
Mr Berry Mr Collaery
Ms Follett Mr Duby
Mrs Grassby Mr Humphries
Mr Moore Mr Jensen
Mr Stevenson Mr Kaine
Mr Wood Dr Kinloch
Ms Maher
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Question resolved in the negative.
Original question resolved in the affirmative.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBERS
MR MOORE (4.23): Mr Speaker, I move:
That leave of absence from 2 April until 14 April 1990 be given to Mr Moore on the grounds of Assembly committee business overseas.
Mr Speaker, the HIV, Illegal Drugs and Prostitution Committee agreed that an important conference overseas should be attended by one of our members and agreed that that member should be me. That then went to your own committee, the Administrative Procedures Committee; it was approved and arrangements are in place. I draw your attention to the fact that Mrs Grassby was granted a similar leave for private business in - if I remember correctly - July last year. I seek the leave of the Assembly to be excused from both committee business and Assembly business should it arise in the interim.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (4.24): Mr Speaker, in the absence of any other speaker on this subject I must say that I have grave reservations about the proposition being put forward by Mr Moore. Of course, I do not control the Assembly or its budget, but I was most disturbed to discover only yesterday that this trip had been arranged. In the light of the economies that I am imposing on the entire ACT Administration - and, I must say, that same reduction will be applied to the Assembly budget next year - I have real reservations about the expenditure of funds involved in sending somebody on a trip of this kind when I believe the information could be obtained in other
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