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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4116 ..

Question put:

That the amendment (Mr Moore's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 10	NOES, 5

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

Motion, as amended, agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (3.47): Mr Speaker, today we had Mrs Carnell leap to her feet and confidently spruik about a meeting which was alleged to have been held between me and the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Carr. It was said that I met with Mr Carr to discuss issues concerning ACTEW.

Mrs Carnell: And other things.

MR BERRY: Mrs Carnell interjects. ACTEW, of course, is the organisation that the Liberals would love to sell; though I would never claim that Mrs Carnell had met with Mr Carr, the Premier of New South Wales, to discuss the sale of it, because I do not know that that is true.

This allegation was made at the end of a week in which the Government has been under significant pressure for its $422m of wrong priorities. These priorities, of course, have been exposed to the ACT community. They involve a range of issues from dud deals, poor expenditure - - -

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