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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4171 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

committee will be able to inquire into this issue, to determine whether there is such a donkey vote effect which could be eliminated or reduced by the Kirschbaum twist, and then proceed to recommend it if it is the appropriate system, or perhaps some alternative to that to solve that problem. I look forward to that being one of those issues that the committee will be able to get its teeth into early in its operation.

Mr Speaker, I thank members for their support for the Bill. I thank also Dr Kirschbaum for his contribution to this debate. I appreciate attempts to refine and improve the system. I hope that we can address in more detail and more thoroughly the questions he has raised, to see whether they offer a solution to what appears to be a small but significant problem with the operation of the current system. Let us hope that in the election due in about three or four months' time nobody here suffers an ignominious fate because we have failed to deal with this apparent anomaly in Robson rotation.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail Stage
Clauses 1 to 27, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Proposed new clause 27A

MS TUCKER (8.10): I move amendment No. 1 circulated in my name, which proposes a new clause 27A. I have already spoken to it. The amendment reads as follows:

Page 12, line 9, after clause 27, insert the following clause:

"Schedule 2

27A. Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by omitting paragraph 2(1)(a) and substituting the following paragraph:

`(a) separate batches are printed -

(i) except where subparagraph (ii) applies - equal in number to twice the number of names in the column; or

(ii) where there are 2 names in the column - equal to that number;'; and

(b) by omitting the table and substituting the table set out in Schedule 1.".

Amendment negatived.

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