Page 1502 - Week 05 - Thursday, 7 April 2005

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Question put.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 10		Noes 7
Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves	Mrs Burke	Mr Smyth
Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald	Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak
Dr Foskey	Ms Porter	Mr Mulcahy
Ms Gallagher	Mr Quinlan	Mr Pratt
Mr Gentleman	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Original question put:

That Mrs Dunne’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 7		Noes 10
Mrs Burke	Mr Smyth	Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves
Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak	Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald
Mr Mulcahy		Dr Foskey	Ms Porter
Mr Pratt		Ms Gallagher	Mr Quinlan
Mr Seselja		Mr Gentleman	Mr Stanhope

Question so resolved in the negative.

Motion negatived.

DR FOSKEY (Molonglo): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make personal explanation.

Leave granted.

DR FOSKEY: My personal explanation will be brief and I hope that it will conclude this matter, given that we will be debating the appointment motion very shortly. First of all, I want to clarify that I asked Mr Corbell to take to caucus my request that the government accept Mr Mulcahy’s motion. Secondly, I want to say that the whole of my conversation with Mrs Dunne was not recounted today. That is okay. I am going to leave it there. I just wanted to say briefly that, yes, I have experienced a moment of glory, as Mrs Dunne said. Suddenly I smell power, and the route to power is the estimates committee. I am only joking. You must understand that I do joke sometimes. I think a bit of lightness in this house would be a good thing.

I want to put it on the record that members of the Liberal Party have lobbied me as well. What I think I have just experienced is what my colleague Kerrie Tucker may have

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