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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (10 May) . . Page.. 1415 ..

MR BERRY (5.56): Mr Speaker, Labor will be opposing this motion. There is more business on the daily program that needs to be addressed this evening. I know Ms Tucker has an important motion to move, as does Mr Kaine. Labor has two motions it would like to resolve. Bear in mind, Mr Speaker, that it was resolved by the Administration and Procedure Committee that these matters be put on the daily program for today. We said that we would sit until 7 o'clock and then adjourn. I think we should attempt to deal with these issues.

Every minister spoke ad nauseam to the motion we have just resolved in this place. I suspect that they did not want to get to the end of that debate.

Mr Humphries: That is not true.

MR BERRY: I withdraw that in respect of Mr Moore. I would hate to blacken your name, Mr Moore, in this respect. Everybody has a good side. Sometimes it is hard to find. We will oppose the motion. I do not need to go on ad nauseam about the issue. I just say that we will be voting against any move to adjourn the house. It is not the government's business to adjourn private members business.

MR HIRD (5.58): I wish to inform the house that I have received a number of representations from residents of Harcourt Hill regarding a proposal to erect a telecommunication tower close to residential development in that area. I have made representations to Minister Smyth and to Senator Margaret Reid, drawing those concerns to their attention.

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (5.58), in reply: In response to a question today from Ms Tucker about her question on notice No 247, I want to inform the Assembly that a copy of my response has been forwarded to Ms Tucker's office this afternoon by the Assembly Secretariat. I signed it yesterday. I am sorry that it did not get to her yesterday. The delay was a result of organisational error within the department, and I apologise for that.

Mr Berry, in opposing the adjourning of the house, said it is not the minister's business to be adjourning private members business.

Mr Berry: Not the government's business, I said.

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