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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2509 ..

MR WHITECROSS (12.19): Ms Horodny made the terrible allegation against me that I am not willing to share things with other members of my party. I just want to rise to say that of course I always share everything I have with members of my party, and I have shared everything I know on this Bill as well. Ms Horodny, let there be no question about my ability to share things. I have shared very much with other members of my party. I will be sharing things with my party on a whole range of matters because I share with the rest of my party a conviction that this Territory needs a Labor government and I will be working just as hard for the election of a Labor government now as I was last week when I was leader. Let us just put to rest this suggestion that I am sitting in my corner and not sharing things with other people.

MR MOORE (12.20): I just want to make a brief comment. Had this issue not been raised six months ago, then I would be much more receptive. Like other members who are dealing with private members business, the difficulty I have is that I have a piece of legislation that I want to have debated on every single private members day for the rest of this year up until the election.

Mr Berry: You might have to wait your turn on some of them.

MR MOORE: Indeed, I will have to wait my turn. We negotiate in the Administration and Procedure Committee in a very open way; but, as soon as I start putting off, then I will wind up with a barrier and I will not get my other pieces of legislation up to be debated.

Mr Berry: That is too bad.

MR MOORE: I can hear Mr Berry saying, "That is too bad". I would have thought that the Labor Party might have done a similar thing. If you choose to bring on matters of moment to debate, matters such as Bill Wood's motion this morning, that is fine. That is your choice. I have a long-term plan which has pieces of legislation on the table waiting to be debated. I would like you to look at them all and scrutinise them so that they can come on. I do not have the time to back off and say, "No, we will not do that. We will do it next week". I have other legislation that I want to deal with next week and in the sitting after that and the sitting after that, Mr Berry.

Amendment agreed to.

MR HUMPHRIES (12.21): I move:

Page 2, lines 18 to 30, clauses 5 to 8, omit the clauses.

This amendment effectively deletes the question of four-year terms.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

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