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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 6 Hansard (1 September) . . Page.. 1624 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

These organisations, these supposedly benevolent organisations, which have been happy to leech the premiums of people for decades and now not make payments in respect of very considerable damage occasioned to people's homes by this flooding, have the nerve to come to this place and run this line here. Mr Speaker, if they had spent a fraction of what they have spent on TV advertising on providing coverage for those people in Wollongong who are now being left short by their disgraceful behaviour, we might have had both the people in Wollongong getting the benefit of some payments and people in the ACT not being hit by this disinformation.

Mr Speaker, this levy is a levy which most insurance policyholders in Australia pay. We have accepted the principle of making our levels of taxation consistent with New South Wales. New South Wales have assessed it recently and found it to be equitable. That, Mr Speaker, is a good enough reason to support this legislation today.

Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9	 	NOES, 8

Ms Carnell	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
Mr Hird		Mr Hargreaves
Mr Humphries	Mr Kaine
Mr Moore	Mr Quinlan 
Mr Osborne	Mr Stanhope 
Mr Rugendyke	Ms Tucker 
Mr Smyth	Mr Wood
Mr Stefaniak

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.

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