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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 10 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 3037 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

Mr De Domenico is seeking an endorsement of cutting the services from those suburbs. Those are the very services which are affecting the small businesses in the Kippax centre. They are the ones that they are really worried about. They affect also other services that are in operation around the centre. There are licensed clubs which have built their business on the availability of services from those suburbs. To strike them out now would be a cruel act. It is very clear that services from those suburbs are intended to be cut. Mr De Domenico has quite deliberately moved to exclude those suburbs from the motion to seek to get this Assembly's endorsement of a cut to those suburbs. The Kippax centre and all its businesses cannot afford to have all of those services cut. It will damage small business; it will damage licensed clubs and the services that they provide to the community in the area.

I want to talk now about the Greens' amendment. The Greens' amendment, in effect, endorses the amendment that Mr De Domenico moved to strike out the words about the withdrawal of services from the eight suburbs. Labor cannot support the amendment which has been moved by the Greens, because in effect it gives you the option of striking out - - -

Mr De Domenico: You disagree with everybody? You are the only one who is right, are you saying - as usual?

MR BERRY: I think the Greens are entitled to feel that they have been - - -

Mr De Domenico: Everybody else is wrong; the world is wrong and Wayne Berry is right?

MR BERRY: No, the community is right. The Greens are entitled to feel that they have been tricked by this. You could not possibly pass an amendment which would allow those words to be included in the motion. It would mean that this Assembly endorsed the withdrawal of services which affect small businesses in the area. Labor will be opposing both amendments because they seek to destroy the effect of the motion.

MS HORODNY: Can I say a few words on the amendment, Mr Speaker?

MR SPEAKER: You may seek leave.

MS HORODNY: I seek leave to speak to my amendment, very briefly.

Leave granted.

MS HORODNY: Mr Berry says that the wording that I have chosen cuts out the intent of his motion. I do not believe that it does. I believe that the intent of his motion is covered in the two choices of words. One is to "ensure that services to Kippax are not cut from the abovementioned suburbs", which I have replaced with "to ensure that services to Kippax and other group centres are improved". The first paragraph of Mr Berry's motion, about the review of services by ACTION which proposes to cut services to Kippax, I believe, is covered in the second part of paragraph (2), which says

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