Page 5254 - Week 16 - Thursday, 28 November 1991

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Question put:

That the motion (Mr Berry's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11  NOES, 6 

Mr Berry Mr Humphries
Mr Collaery Mr Kaine
Mr Connolly Mrs Nolan
Mr Duby Mr Prowse
Ms Follett Mr Stefaniak
Mrs Grassby Mr Stevenson
Mr Jensen
Dr Kinloch
Ms Maher
Mr Moore
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

YUGOSLAVIA AND EAST TIMOR
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance

MR SPEAKER: I have received a letter from Mr Collaery proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly for discussion, namely:

The need for this Assembly to reject isolationism, appeasement and to offer support to the Canberra community.

Motion

MR COLLAERY (3.20): To save time and to ensure that the debate is swift, I also seek leave to move the motion circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR COLLAERY: I thank members. I move:

That this Assembly -

(1) Urges the Prime Minister to pursue every effort in the United Nations to secure a just peace in Yugoslavia;

(2) Condemns the atrocities perpetrated during the incident of 12 November 1991 at East Timor Cemetery in Dili;

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