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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (11 November) . . Page.. 3960 ..

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, earlier, in an interjection, I incorrectly said that a goods and services tax was a progressive tax. It is not a progressive tax. I was wrong. Mr Speaker, I was wrong, and when I am wrong I am always willing to admit it.

MS TUCKER: I also seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, proceed.

MS TUCKER: I believe that Mr Whitecross misrepresented the essence of my speech on the last matter that we debated. He said that I apparently had no problems with the Carnell Government. What I made quite clear in my speech was that I have different priorities from both Labor and Liberal. I do not see their priorities to be that different from each other's. However, I give credit where it is due, unlike some members of this place who tend to want to oppose everything for the sake of it, and that was what I said.

MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I present Report No. 16 of 1997 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.

Leave granted.

MR WOOD: Report No. 16 of 1997 contains the committee's comments on nine Bills. I commend the report to the Assembly.

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