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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 05 Hansard (Friday, 14 May 2004) . . Page.. 2076 ..

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Clause 10, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 11.

MRS CROSS (11.48): I move amendment No 5 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 2121].

This is a consequential amendment, so I will not speak long. I want to put on record, however, my thanks to Ms Dundas for having thought through the numbers issue—the magic number of people that had to be a member of a political party to make it valid. I appreciate her comments. Ms Dundas is a breath of fresh air in this Assembly. The fact that she spends a lot of time thinking things through in detail puts people twice her age to shame at times. I appreciated Ms Dundas’s argument on that earlier.

Amendment negatived.

Clause 11 agreed to.

Proposed new clause 11A.

MRS CROSS (11.49): I move amendment No 6 circulated in my name which inserts a new clause 11A [see schedule 3 at page 2121].

This is also a consequential amendment, so I am not going to speak to it.

Amendment negatived.

Clause 12.

MRS CROSS (11.50): Mr Speaker, I will be opposing this clause.

MR STEFANIAK (11.50): As I mentioned earlier, I will be opposing this clause, clause 13 and other clauses I mentioned earlier which relate to non-party groupings. Accordingly, all those clauses will take that out, but the non-party group is something we think should stay. I have already spoken about two or more candidates grouping under one column on the ballot paper. I will be opposing this clause, clause 13 and the other clauses I have mentioned.

MS TUCKER (11.51): This is an amendment to remove the arrangements that allow Independent candidates to group themselves on the ballot paper with other Independent

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