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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 StefaniakQuestion so resolved in the affirmative.
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
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