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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (24 June) . . Page.. 2010 ..

MR OSBORNE: I could be like you and the Greens and block supply every 12 months. I could block supply. The first year they blocked supply.

Mr Berry: No; they voted with the Government. They voted for Mrs Carnell as Chief Minister.

Mrs Carnell: No, they did not. They did not vote for the budget last year.

MR OSBORNE: They did not. The first year they did not, Mr Berry.

MR SPEAKER: Order! You will get back to Part 7, the ACT Superannuation Provision.

MR OSBORNE: Someone needs to give Mr Berry a history lesson.

Mr Berry: You are on the same side as the Greens, Paul. That must irk you a little bit.

MR OSBORNE: It is a scary thought.

MR SPEAKER: I am not interested in whose side people are on. I would ask members to restrict themselves to the matter under discussion.

MR OSBORNE: I make no apologies for allowing the budget to get through, Mr Speaker. There are a lot of things I do not like in it. This Government funds abortion clinics, Mr Speaker. Is Mr Berry going to stand up and say that I am then in favour of abortion?

MR SPEAKER: Relevance, Mr Osborne.

MR OSBORNE: There has been no relevance coming out of the Labor Party for the last 40 minutes, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: There certainly has not, and I intend to remind members that we do need to discuss this in more detail.

Mr Whitecross: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. It is not your job to criticise members of this Assembly for their contributions to the debate. If you thought that any member was irrelevant you should have brought it to the attention of the house.

MR SPEAKER: I shall continue to do so, Mr Whitecross.

MR OSBORNE: Mr Speaker, it is okay. He is embarrassed, quite obviously. Mr Speaker, to pay only the emerging costs of our present scheme each year, as has been the practice so far, is eventually going to ruin the Territory. Nothing is clearer, in my opinion. The option may seem like the light at the end of the tunnel to some people. I do not think they fully understand the situation.

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