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these days, which is a very bullish property market. So, there is no logic whatsoever and Mr Kaine clearly is speaking for a vestigial element of the commercial leaseholders in this town. He is speaking for a few people who still maintain this purist absolutionist argument. It does not apply commercially any more elsewhere in Australia.
I invite the Liberal Party to tell us why casino operators are willing to go on on short-term leases in other parts of the country. Does it do something to their business? The fact is that we have hit you on the bullseye on this. Let us hear what your real answer is and what the real reason is. You are playing for votes from a few benefactors to the Liberal Party. That is the real reason.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (1.02): Mr Deputy Speaker, for the record, the Labor Party opposes this. We do so on well-established philosophical grounds that I do not need to repeat.
Question put:
That the amendment (Mr Kaine's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 6 NOES, 9
Mr Duby Mr Berry
Mr Humphries Mr Collaery
Mr Kaine Mr Connolly
Ms Maher Ms Follett
Mr Prowse Mrs Grassby
Mr Stefaniak Mr Jensen
Dr Kinloch
Mr Moore
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the negative.
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
Sitting suspended from 1.08 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Government Service - Staff Numbers
MR KAINE: I address a question to the Chief Minister. Could I refresh the Chief Minister's memory of a statement that she made in answer to a question on 18 September 1991, when she said that, while I - referring to me - did not achieve my target of 3,000 in staff reductions, I actually presided over something of an increase in staffing during the time that I was in government. I draw her attention to
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