Page 2343 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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increase in the rates to average Canberra people - a large number of whom supported him, ill-advised though that might have been - I think that Mr Duby stands condemned. I have no doubt that ordinary Canberra citizens first supported Mr Duby because they thought he was going to try to abolish self-government. Now they know that he is not going to do that. They also know that he does not really care two hoots about their own private economic situation. Now he is going to hike up the rates at any time he likes, particularly when there is not an election in the offing. I think that Mr Duby's credibility in the electorate has really reached an all-time low - if it could have gone any lower - as a result of his action in regard to rates.
Mr Speaker, I commend the amendments to the Assembly. They are reasonable amendments. As I say, they recognise that the rates do have to move with CPI, but they do no more than that.
Question put:
That the amendments be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 7 NOES, 9
Mr Berry Mr Duby
Mr Connolly Mr Humphries
Ms Follett Mr Jensen
Mrs Grassby Mr Kaine
Mr Moore Dr Kinloch
Mr Stevenson Ms Maher
Mr Wood Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the negative.
Clause agreed to.
Clause 7
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (5.56): I move:
Page 3, proposed new subsection 22(4A), line 14, omit the proposed new subsection, substitute the following subsection:
"4(A) Where a court enters a judgment for the payment of an amount of rates -
(a) the amount, or the relevant amount, shall not be taken, for the purposes of subsection (3), to have ceased to be due for payment only because the judgment was entered; and
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