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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 3 Hansard (7 March) . . Page.. 764 ..
MR SPEAKER: Mr Minister, do answer the question.
MR STEFANIAK: Thank you, Mr Speaker, I will. I am not the only one to raise this. It was raised by Ms Cunich on the ABC who said this:
Well, it's not an easy thing to do when things are passed through the assembly. We will be discussing this with the Labor Party. We're very, very disappointed that Mr Stanhope withdrew an amendment that would have seen, basically, an either/or provision so that a tenant could either choose to go down the preferential rights provision or choose to go to market rent review at the end of the lease. Now, Mr Stanhope, at the eleventh hour, withdrew that amendment.
Mr Stanhope: So your 250 Club millionaire mates are disappointed with the Labor Party. We are devastated.
MR STEFANIAK: Dearie me, Mr Stanhope. I thought we all started off on the premise of all trying to get a level playing field. Mr Stanhope obviously is concerned about this. He does look a bit worried about this. Maybe the answer is really quite simple. I think we all know that Labor is going through some of the same ructions that they had in 1997. Perhaps the Left and the Right factions of the party are now getting ready to dump Mr Stanhope and put in the dream team of Quinlan and Corbell. Is that what is happening here? Is that what we are actually seeing? Are they going to let a good policy go down the drain for their own political ends? I wonder, Mr Speaker, I wonder. Thanks, Mr Hird.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Minister, the last part of your comment was quite out of order. It is not our place to rule or your place to rule on the internal divisions of the Labor Party.
Mr Wood: Oh, come on. That's not fair either.
MR SPEAKER: Well, I am sorry. I am upholding it.
Mr Wood: There is nothing there.
MR SPEAKER: All right. I take the point nevertheless, Mr Wood, that there was no point of order taken. Nevertheless, I do want to be fair in these things.
Mr Wood: The comment was not fair.
Mr Stanhope: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a statement pursuant to standing order 46.
Mr Humphries: At the end of question time, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: It is normally done at the end of question time, Mr Stanhope.
Mr Stanhope: I think it is up to the Speaker to make that decision. It is not up to him.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, it is, and I am making it. We normally have these at the end of question time.
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