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dialogue and to share and provide information. We have been doing that quite comprehensively, particularly in the last couple of months.

I certainly stand by my comments that I always have my door open. Pat Barling or anyone else can get on the phone to me and I will agree to meet them as soon as possible. I have never refused a meeting, never declined an invitation. I am always available.

That is my approach; I think it is the right approach—a constructive approach, a mature approach and one that, unlike those opposite, seeks to see this not as some party political exercise but as an exercise designed to achieve the best outcomes for our emergency services, for the volunteers that work within them and for the safety of the community as a whole.

MR SPEAKER: I call Mr Pratt.

MR PRATT (Brindabella) (11.19): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, I—

Ms MacDonald: Procedural motion, Mr Speaker.

MR PRATT: Mr Speaker, on a point of order—

Mr Smyth: Mr Pratt got the call. You will have to wait your turn.

MR SPEAKER: He has got the call, but—

MS MacDONALD (Brindabella) (11.19): I move:

That the question be now put.

MR SPEAKER: The question is that the question be put.

Mr Smyth: But you had already given Mr Pratt the call.

MR SPEAKER: She can interrupt debate with a closure motion.

Mr Pratt: Mr Speaker, three members of the government have stood up in train. I beat Ms MacDonald to her feet. Surely we could see this matter out first.

MR SPEAKER: The question is that the question be put. I have got a motion before the house that has been moved in accordance with the standing orders, and I have to put it.

Question put:

That the question be now put.

The Assembly voted—

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