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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (7 December) . . Page.. 3946 ..

MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Before I put the question may I make a few comments. I would like to thank all members of the secretariat of this building, many of whom work behind the scenes, for their assistance. The presence of the staff of the committee office and the attendants is obvious but there are Hansard and library people, plus others. I would also like to thank the staff of all members for their assistance.

I would like to thank all members but I cannot because you have all been naughty at one time or another in this chamber. Nevertheless, I extend to you the compliments of the season and certainly wish you a happy and prosperous new year.

I would like to conclude by adding a few words to those that have been made about Kate Carnell. As an unrepentant Tory, Kate - and let us face it, we were opposites so far as the Liberals are concerned - I do not think there was anything more honourable from the point of view of a Liberal than the manner of your going, which I thought was extremely courageous and decent. But I think you had to go because there is a bigger world for you out there and much wider horizons than this place. Therefore, I wish you all the very best. To paraphrase Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, it is a far, far better thing you do.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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