Page 1162 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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do with the results if there is no clear answer. I will vote, as I have mentioned, along the line of the referendum description sheet that listed group non-party candidates along with other columns. As that was there, I will vote for that because there is no other clear distinction here.
This raises the question that Mr Moore brought up about the number of years for the term of the Assembly. The two proposals by members in this Assembly were three years and four years. When we carried out our survey we did not ask only about three-year or four-year terms. We asked about two-year terms, three-year terms and four-year terms. The results were about a third each. I normally would have included "Other" in order to give people an opportunity to pick a term other than two, three or four years. A four-year term was greater than anyone proposed around the Assembly anyway. The reason I did not do so is that I feel that many people would have put "zero". As I knew that I had to vote on that question, I needed to get some indication from people of what they wanted.
Mr Humphries mentioned public funding earlier. His point was that the Liberal Party has been against public funding for a long time. While he has not carried out a survey, he says that there is strong anecdotal evidence. Mr Humphries's anecdotal evidence is right, but I would suggest to the Liberal Party that, at any time they wish, they can get out there and make sure that their policies do align with the people, irrespective of anecdotal evidence, no matter how strong.
Amendments agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (1.41), by leave: Madam Speaker, I move together Government amendments Nos 57 and 58. They read as follows:
57. Page 83, line 36, proposed new subsection 204(2), omit "The", substitute "Subject to subsection (7), the".
58. Page 84, line 1, proposed new subsection 204(3), omit "Subject to subsection (7), the", substitute "The".
These two amendments amend proposed new subsections 204(2) and (3) to clarify that the amounts payable under the election funding scheme cannot exceed the electoral expenditure that has actually been incurred. I will leave it at that.
Amendments agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (1.42), by leave: Madam Speaker, I move together the Government amendments j. and k., which are set out on the pink sheet, supplementary amendments D. They are as follows:
j. Page 83, line 37, proposed new subsection 204(2), omit "or party", substitute ", party or non-party group".
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