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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (12 November) . . Page.. 4040 ..

Mr Moore: What - there is more?

MR OSBORNE: There is more. Then comes the coup de grace, the shot that proves Andrew is no ordinary politician. So driven by a good idea is Mr Whitecross that he will risk his political life to push it. Silence, Madam Deputy Speaker. Despite this being in the lead-up to an election, despite what the polls are apparently saying about him, Andrew Whitecross is backing the closure of the Tuggeranong interchange. There is a deathly silence. He sees Graham has a point and is willing to snatch a service from his own constituents, not because of some blind commitment to ideology but simply because he believes that it is the right thing to do.

Madam Deputy Speaker, I am in awe. This is the kind of leadership that deserves to be in the Lodge, not here in this small Assembly. Let us flick the visionless pygmy who occasionally occupies that house and install a man of real political courage and leadership. Andrew, if you survive this quixotic charge against your party, your human comrades, humble bus drivers and your own constituents, you have my vote for PM.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is: That Ms Horodny's amendments be agreed to.

Mr Whitecross: I ask that the question be divided.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly that the question on Ms Horodny's amendments be divided? There being no objection, that course will be followed.

Question put:

That amendment No. 1 (Ms Horodny's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11	 NOES, 6

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

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