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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 9 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 3300 ..

 
	Ayes 11				Noes 6

Mr Berry	Ms MacDonald		Mrs Burke  
Mr Corbell	Mr Quinlan		Mr Cornwell  
Mrs Cross	Mr Stanhope		Mrs Dunne
Ms Dundas	Ms Tucker		Mr Pratt  
Ms Gallagher	Mr Wood			Mr Smyth
Mr Hargreaves				Mr Stefaniak

Amendment agreed to.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Personal explanation

MR PRATT: Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation under standing order 46. I claim to have been misrepresented by Mr Corbell in the debate just concluded.

MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.

MR PRATT: Mr Corbell claimed that I had called for a 26.5 per cent pay rise for teachers, and he was very specific about that. I said no such thing. He misrepresented what I said. Mr Speaker, my personal explanation is that in supporting the teachers case I said to the media that the government had to strive to achieve parity with other jurisdictions. I also said that I did not know whether the government could match New South Wales, but it had to try. In his haste to misrepresent, Mr Corbell has tripped up again. Thank God-

MR SPEAKER: Mr Pratt, stick to the personal explanation, please.

MR PRATT: Okay, Mr Speaker. He has misrepresented what I said and that, again, reflects on his inability to be careful about the detail of what he is talking about.

MR SPEAKER: It is not about Mr Corbell; it is about you, Mr Pratt.

Alcohol and other drugs task force-availability of consultant's report

MS TUCKER (5.26): I move:

Members may recall how the alcohol and other drugs task force was set up. A public meeting was held in the Assembly about a year ago-I cannot remember exactly-at the

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