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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (26 August) . . Page.. 2366 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (10.35): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move a motion regarding the recording of proceedings today.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

That the Assembly authorises:

(1) the recording on video tape without sound by television networks of proceedings during the addresses to the Assembly by representatives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from the ACT and surrounding region and question time today, Tuesday, 26 August 1997;

(2) the use by any television station of any part of the recorded proceedings in subsequent news, current affairs and documentary programs and not for the purposes of satire or ridicule; and

(3) the taking of still photographs during the addresses to the Assembly by representatives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from the ACT and surrounding region and question time today, Tuesday, 26 August 1997, and the use of such photographs in the print media generally.

This is the usual motion relating to the broadcasting of proceedings and is appropriate, given today's historic sitting of the Assembly.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR SPEAKER: On 17 June 1997 the Assembly passed a resolution of apology arising from the report Bringing them home. On 19 June the Assembly passed a further resolution to provide for representatives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from the ACT and surrounding region to address the Assembly on the matter of the apology arising from the report. I, as Speaker, was charged with issuing the invitations in consultation with the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure. The committee, of which I am a member, considered the matter at its meetings of 24 June and 2 and 7 July 1997.

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