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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 4 Hansard (11 April) . . Page.. 1021 ..

MR QUINLAN (continuing):

need to be replaced by further income from sports bookmakers. Rather than getting towards national uniformity in taxation and in contribution, we might become quite competitive as the Northern Territory has become competitive.

I would like members to understand that there may be some fall-out. If members want further detail on that, please contact my office. We would like every member of the Assembly to understand the position that we are in and the reasons why we have arrived at that particular position. I would like them to understand also that we still hold hopes of sorting this out once the hairy-chestedness has gone out of the negotiations and that it might become a thing of the past and be resolved. That is the situation.

Mr Stanhope: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.

Personal explanation

MRS DUNNE: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a statement under standing order 46. In question time today, the Minister for Planning misrepresented my statement on the Curtin shops. I would like to make it perfectly clear that I did not make a statement as the chair of the Planning and Environment Committee. That would be inappropriate, as I had not consulted with members of the committee.

Mr Corbell: I do not have any choice about that. I wear different hats.

MRS DUNNE: Yes, you happen to wear a number of hats-and you have done it very dextrously yourself.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Dunne! Stick to your personal explanation.

MRS DUNNE: It would have been inappropriate for me to do so, as I have not consulted with the members of my committee. I was speaking as the shadow Minister for Planning, after consultation with my party room. I would like to quote briefly from the fairly lengthy press release I put out about this.

Mr Stanhope: Just get to the dead in the water bit.

MRS DUNNE: Do you like that? Yes, I have noticed a lot of people like that! I quote:

I go on to say:

When it is received. But it says:

the Liberals, not the Planning and Environment Committee-

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