Page 389 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 December 2008

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MRS DUNNE: The standing order applies to documents that the member has quoted from. He said in his speech that he had received in writing today advice from the Chief Planning Executive in relation to this. Whether or not he has it in his hand or not, he has referred to advice and I would like them tabled.

Question put:

That Mrs Dunne’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 6

Noes 11

Mr Coe

Mr Barr

Ms Hunter

Mr Doszpot

Ms Bresnan

Ms Le Couteur

Mrs Dunne

Ms Burch

Ms Porter

Mr Hanson

Mr Corbell

Mr Rattenbury

Mr Seselja

Ms Gallagher

Mr Stanhope

Mr Smyth

Mr Hargreaves

Question so resolved in the negative.

MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (5.41): I thank members for their support. I understand the Chief Minister’s point in relation to the definition of communication facility. I think it is fair to say, though, that there is still a fair amount of ambiguity, and certainly it is a contested point as to what is a communications facility and what falls within this definition. But we do believe that it is very important that it is not contained within this piece of legislation because there is no doubt that when these issues are being considered this has the possibility of setting a precedent. It is a precedent that we do not support. It is a precedent that the community would be concerned about. That is why we have sought the removal of this clause. I thank members for their support.

Clause negatived.

Clauses 10 to 13, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Dictionary agreed to.

Preamble.

MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (5.43): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 455].

We were interested to read the original preamble put in this bill. The preamble is essentially telling a bit of a story as to how we got to this point, and we believe that the story does not give all of the facts. There are a couple of important additions that we are seeking to put into the preamble. The first is that the original preamble talks about some members of the Legislative Assembly having expressed concerns. We believe that it should recognise that it is not just some members of the Legislative

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