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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 3 Hansard (9 March) . . Page.. 841 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

change in the ACT in the management of essential services, services which have significant environmental impacts and public health implications. I am not convinced to any measure that this Government knows what it is doing.

Question put:

That the amendment (Ms Tucker 's ) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 7   	NOES, 10


Mr Berry  	Ms Carnell
Mr Corbell  	Mr Cornwell
Mr Hargreaves  	Mr Hird
Mr Quinlan  	Mr Humphries
Mr Stanhope  	Mr Kaine
Ms Tucker  	Mr Moore
Mr Wood  	Mr Osborne
 		Mr Rugendyke
 		Mr Smyth
 		Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the negative.

MR KAINE (5.56): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move the amendment that has been circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR KAINE: I move:

After the words "That this Assembly", insert the words ",subject to the passing, by the Assembly, of the ACTEW/AGL Partnership Facilitation Bill 2000,".

Mr Speaker, the purpose of this amendment is to tidy up the process. In fact, it is the legislation we have not yet debated which places the obligation on the Minister to seek the approval of this Assembly to divest assets of a main undertaking nature. When the Minister suggested a cognate debate covering this motion and the Bill, he obviously assumed that we would debate both together, that he would get the Bill through and that at the same time he would have the Assembly's approval to go ahead with the action he needs to take in connection with these main undertaking assets.

Because the Opposition has not agreed to debate the motion and the Bill cognately, we now have the unusual position that, assuming that we approve the Minister's motion in a few minutes, which I suspect we will, he then has the approval of the Assembly to go away and do what he wishes, in any manner that he chooses, with the assets. That was

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