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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (28 August) . . Page.. 2666 ..

MR MOORE (5.51): I remained here, Mr Speaker, because I saw Mr Berry fired up and I thought, "This has to be something interesting". Lo and behold, I find myself standing to support him. That is an excellent idea, Mr Berry. I, too, am quite happy to commit myself to the same approach that the Leader of the Labor Party is committing the Labor Party to - do not mention them. We do have an entirely different system from the Federal sphere, where such things are important in terms of single-member electorates and how you place candidates on how-to-vote cards. In this case in Canberra we will not have how-to-vote cards. I notice that Mr McMullan worded his statement very carefully, if he was correctly reported in the paper this morning, as I presume he was. He said that our publicity material should put the One Nation party last.

I think that the proposal put by Mr Berry is an excellent one. Leave them off altogether. Do not mention them. They do not deserve it anyway. That is the most effective way of dealing with it in our system in the ACT. I am happy to throw my weight behind that proposal. I hope that we will hear the same from the Liberals. I hope that the Greens in turn will use the same approach, and that Mr Osborne will also. I will be looking forward to hearing from those people in a public way. I hope it will be the same for any other groups that run for election. I understand that federally the Democrats have committed themselves already to a similar approach. I hope that they will in turn use a similar approach to that suggested by Labor here.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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