Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . .
Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (7 September) . . Page.. 3096 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
Yet he has the nerve to move, as his party has done several times in the last few years, motions of censure and no confidence in ministers on this side of the chamber because they have supposedly used misleading words in certain debates. If you ask me, Mr Speaker, that is pretty gross hypocrisy.
I am going to support this legislation tonight proudly and in the knowledge that it is going to produce a dramatic effect on the solving and the preventing of crime in this community. I hope everybody in this community realises how important it is that we pass this legislation with its full scope preserved intact.
Mr Speaker, I do not intend to support any of Labor's amendments because of the insincerity with which they are going to be moved in this place tonight. Mr Stanhope has had these amendments since approximately 11 o'clock yesterday morning and he tabled the amendments about 20 minutes before this debate began at about half past 10 this evening and expects to be taken seriously on these matters.
Mr Speaker, that is called proceeding by way of ambush and members should not reward that tactic in this place by deigning to offer support for amendments of that kind. Ms Tucker has been privileged to see the amendments before this evening. Apparently some members are worth showing the amendments to and others are not. I think we should reject the tawdry, cheap tactic Labor has adopted by rejecting the amendment en masse. If any of them are worth picking up, they can be dealt with later in a government miscellaneous bill or another bill of Mr Stanhope's choosing. But this bill is important. It should be passed and I commend it to the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Clauses 6 and 7, by leave, taken together.
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.25): I am grateful for the Attorney's acknowledgment that the government did make a mistake in subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) of clause 29, that he was wrong, that under subparagraphs (1)(b)(ii) and (iii) of clause 29-I do not know whether it was deliberate or just a drafting mistake-
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. I thought you were referring to clauses 6 and 7 of this bill, not clause 29.
MR SPEAKER: That is correct. I uphold the point put forward by the Attorney.
MR STANHOPE: The Attorney is a bit sensitive. I will deal with that when we get to it, then.
MR SPEAKER: Would you like to have leave to move amendments 1 and 2 together?
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . .