Page 2318 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 15 September 1992
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Question put:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 7 NOES, 10
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly
Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Mr Stevenson Mr Lamont
Mr Westende Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the negative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Canberra Stereo Public Radio
MR HUMPHRIES (10.27): Madam Speaker, I should like to refer to the bid by Canberra Stereo Public Radio for a public stereo licence, an FM licence. As members may be aware, the matter comes up next year for decision by the Federal Department of Transport and Communications. Members who served on the Select Committee on Cultural Activities in the last Assembly will recall that CSPR was referred to as a prime candidate and a supported candidate for an FM licence bid.
Members may also be aware that in the last three weeks or so there has been a further trial broadcast by CSPR in the Canberra region from its studios in Curtin which those of us who tuned in will know was a great success. I took the opportunity many times as I travelled around Canberra of tuning in to 103.1. I greatly enjoyed the quality and the diversity of music and other things that were available on that radio station. It was disappointing that CSPR missed out a couple of years ago on an FM licence, and I think all of us in this chamber would support its bid for a licence in 1993.
CSPR is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated nearly 10 years ago with the aim of setting up a high-quality FM music and arts radio station for the ACT and surrounding region. A good question to ask is: Just what level of interest would there be in the ACT in an activity such as this? We already have a fairly large
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