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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (19 February) . . Page.. 163 ..

Mr Humphries: That is nonsense.

MR WHITECROSS: It is not nonsense, Mr Humphries, and you know it. This is no different from any other year. People will know their rates when, and only when, the Assembly passes the rates and land tax legislation, and we have not done it. So, you have been caught out on that as well. Mr Speaker, let me conclude on this note: Mrs Carnell says, "If the Assembly gets its way and insists on the decision we made last June being honoured, we will be spending $400,000 on nothing". Mr Speaker, the 1997 valuations are required to ensure that the rates system is fair. Mrs Carnell, out of her own mouth, says that, to her, fairness is nothing.

Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 9		 NOES, 6

	Mr Berry	Mrs Carnell
	Mr Corbell	Mr Cornwell
	Ms Horodny	Mr Hird
	Mr Moore	Mr Humphries
	Mr Osborne	Mrs Littlewood
	Ms Reilly	Mr Stefaniak
	Ms Tucker
	Mr Whitecross
	Mr Wood

MR BERRY (5.58): I move:

Noting that there have been no Health and Community Care Quarterly Activity reports tabled since the June 1996 report and no monthly Information Bulletins for the Canberra Hospital and Calvary Hospital tabled since the October 1996 reports, this Assembly requires the Minister for Health to provide Assembly Members, by the close of business - Wednesday, 19 February 1997:

(1) the Quarterly Activity reports for September 1996 and December 1996; and

(2) the Monthly Information Bulletins for both hospitals for November 1996, December 1996 and January 1997.

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