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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 2 Hansard (28 February) . . Page.. 437 ..

MR SPEAKER: What Ms Follett said is perfectly acceptable. It is an amended motion. If she uses the word "emasculated", that is all right. I suppose that other people might use "amended".

MS FOLLETT: I will say gutted, if you like, or decimated. Mr Speaker, members know only too well what I mean when I make that comment. I think it is very much to be regretted that that emasculation has been carried out, shall we say, with the full cooperation of the two Independent members, one of whom actually moved a censure motion against the Government over this very matter. It is a sequence of events that leaves one breathless. It is as if in the grand final he chucked the ball to the other side. What a good idea! Mr Speaker, I have moved my very minor amendment only with the wish at least to make some sense of what remains. As I say, that should not imply in any way that we will be supporting the amended motion, because we will not, we cannot, and nor could anybody with a conscience.

Amendment (Ms Follett's) agreed to.

Question put:

That the motion (Mr Connolly's), as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 6	 	NOES, 9

Mrs Carnell	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell	Ms Follett
Mr De Domenico	Ms Horodny
Mr Hird		Ms McRae
Mr Humphries	Mr Moore
Mr Kaine	Mr Osborne
		Ms Tucker
		Mr Whitecross
		Mr Wood

Debate resumed from 23 November 1995, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR BERRY (4.52): Mr Speaker, this amendment deals, firstly, with section 6 of the Act. The removal of subsection (3) of section 6 allows the application of sections 24, 33, 34 and 35 to residential premises. That means that there will be certain responsibilities out there in the community which maybe the community has not been

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