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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (26 February) . . Page.. 489 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

Maybe some people would have preferred Yarramundi, but I know that everybody in this place supports the museum.

Mr Berry: It will be second rate.

MRS CARNELL: No, the National Museum. I mean a new museum. I am confident that everybody in this place supports a National Museum on Acton Peninsula. I am confident that nobody in this place would say, "No, we do not want the museum, thank you very much, Prime Minister. Take it away. We do not want anything unless we can have it on Yarramundi". The fact is that this Government certainly will not be going that way.

We need to be very careful that we do not let the Commonwealth off the hook now. They have committed to this project. The Prime Minister himself has committed to the project as one of the major parts of the 2001 celebration. We in this place must not hold this up for one day. They are currently putting together the Federal budget. The message I want to send from this place - and I am sure most people in this place agree with me - is that the ACT will be doing its bit. It will be doing its bit on time, and there will be no excuses for the Federal Government not having appropriate money in their budget.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR WOOD: I present Report No. 2 of 1997 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I seek leave to make a brief statement on the report.

Leave granted.

MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, Report No. 2 of 1997 contains the committee's consideration of the Holidays (Amendment) Bill 1997. The report is provided today as Mr Berry's Bill, which this is, will be debated tomorrow. I can advise the Assembly that there is no comment on this Bill.

Debate resumed.

MR WHITECROSS (Leader of the Opposition) (4.15): Mr Speaker, I rise to resume debate on the Medical Treatment (Amendment) Bill 1997. I want to reiterate for the record that the Labor Party has a conscience vote on this issue. In speaking on this issue, Mr Speaker, I am speaking as an individual member of the Assembly rather than as the leader of a political party. We are debating at present the in-principle position in relation

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