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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (5 November) . . Page.. 3677 ..

Question put:

That the Bill, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 13 NOES, 4

Mr Berry Mr Moore Mr Cornwell
Mrs Carnell Mr Osborne Mr Hird
Mr Corbell Ms Reilly Mr Kaine
Ms Horodny Ms Tucker Mr Stefaniak
Mr Humphries Mr Whitecross
Mrs Littlewood Mr Wood
Ms McRae

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

MRS LITTLEWOOD: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal statement, under standing order 46.

Leave granted.

MRS LITTLEWOOD: During the last debate Mr Corbell made some comments, as did Mr Berry, regarding my position on this particular issue of euthanasia. For the record, I would like to put down exactly what happened and what I did in that case. I had been in this chamber approximately three days, I think, when the vote came on. I entered this area with the intention of voting the Bill down and voting no because I had not had time to go through the Bill and was not comfortable with things that were in that Bill. People who were here at the time will recall that there was a bit of toing-and-froing taking place. Members of my party realised that I was not comfortable in voting no, but I did not think I had any option.

Mr Berry: They were all over you like a rash up in the corner there.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MRS LITTLEWOOD: Mr Berry, you have had your go; just shush and be quiet and listen to me having my go. Because I was not comfortable with that and because I was not, I suppose, confident enough with standing orders - I am probably still not confident enough with standing orders - I chose to take the route of voting no because I felt that was the safest way of going. However, in the course of that morning I was advised by the

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