Page 986 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES: No. Mr Stevenson has a particular view about this. He believes that you can have proportional representation only if the whole jurisdiction is a single electorate.
Mr Stevenson: I have not said that. It is one electorate, two electorates, three electorates, four electorates.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is impossible. If I had voted in that Dennis poll I would have voted for the third option because I would consider that proportional representation where the 17 candidates with the most votes get the most seats is a good description of the system that I voted for in February 1992. That would be my view. As I say, I still have not seen the wording of that polling. I look forward to seeing it so that Mr Stevenson can clear up the doubts which remain.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (9.02): Madam Speaker, I move the Government amendment No. 18, circulated in my name, which reads:
18. Page 38, line 6, proposed new paragraph 99(3)(b), omit "cash", substitute "legal tender".
By using the term "legal tender" rather than "cash" I am seeking to bring the ACT into line with the equivalent Commonwealth practice and to ensure that the nomination process is not frustrated by deposits being made in coin. Under the Commonwealth's Currency Act 1965, "legal tender" cannot be coins for amounts over $20, whereas "cash" would include coins. As the Bill now stands, it may be possible for a candidate or candidates, or entire parties, to submit all of their nomination deposits in coin. That would be very frustrating and something we would do best to avoid.
MR HUMPHRIES (9.03): This amendment may frustrate the representatives of the pensioner parties who break open their piggy banks to find the coins to make up the deposit. Notwithstanding that, the Liberal Party will support this amendment.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (9.03), by leave: I move:
19. Page 39, line 20, proposed new subsection 101(1), omit "at any time", substitute "not later than 24 hours".
20. Page 39, line 22, proposed new subsection 101(2), omit "at any time", substitute "not later than 24 hours".
Madam Speaker, the purpose of these amendments to proposed new subsections 101(1) and 101(2) is to provide that a nomination may be withdrawn by a candidate or cancelled by a party's registered officer only up to 24 hours before the hour of nomination.
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