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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 10 Hansard (24 November) . . Page.. 2802 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer): I seek leave to make a short statement in respect of the matters that Mr Osborne has just raised.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I have heard Mr Osborne's comments, and I want to indicate that I think the comments are fair comments. In my remarks in the Assembly last Tuesday, I did specifically make reference to the adviser to the Justice and Community Safety Committee rather than the committee itself. I realise that, even though advisers may prepare documents for committees, it is the committees themselves which bring reports to the Assembly. I will certainly not make such comments again and make sure in future that, if I criticise what appears in writing from a committee, I criticise the committee rather than its advisers.

MR SPEAKER: For the information of members, I present a copy of the letters from the Chief Minister to the Prime Minister dated 10 November 1998 and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the same date, conveying the Assembly's resolution of 28 October 1998 relating to the atrocities of the Pinochet regime.

MR SPEAKER: For the information of members, I present Auditor-General's Report No. 6 of 1998, "Assembly Members' Superannuation and Severance Payments to Former Members' Staffers".

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) (3.39): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move a motion to authorise publication of the Auditor-General's report.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I move:

That the Assembly authorises the publication of the Auditor-General's Report No. 6 of 1998.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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