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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (24 May) . . Page.. 1724 ..

MR KAINE (continuing):

I do not think it would do Mr Stanhope much good to have a motion that only half the people in this place support. It stands for nothing much whether the Chief Minister does what the motion asks us to do or not, but I think we should come up with a motion on which we are agreed unanimously. I submit that this amendment will achieve that.

MR OSBORNE (8.16): This is the way forward. This is the blueprint from the United Canberra Party.

Mr Quinlan: All or nothing.

MR OSBORNE: All or nothing. Come on. I have forgotten what I was going to say, Mr Speaker. I hear what Mr Kaine is saying, but I think paragraph (2) is very important. It is worth making the point. I was watching a television program last night on SBS. It was on the Magdalene houses in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. Single mothers were taken to these places when they were pregnant and their babies were taken away. The graphic pictures of these women in their 70s and 80s still grieving for what had happened moved me. I thought about this very issue last night as I watched that show, thinking what a disastrous policy it was. I remember a couple of weeks ago when that hoo-ha broke out about the government claiming there was not a complete generation stolen. They are probably right, Mr Speaker, but I think the way they handled it was insensitive and is well worth rejecting by this Assembly.

Mr Kaine: Are you going to support my motion?

MR OSBORNE: I look forward to developing the plan Mr Kaine has, but I will not be supporting it.

The Assembly voted-

Ayes, 7  	Noes, 8

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

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