Page 162 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012

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I have asked her to apologise. She broke her promise. She said she would build three walk-in centres—in black and white—and that was a lie, because she did not. No two ways about it. How can it not be a lie?

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I ask you to withdraw.

MR HANSON: Okay, I withdraw it. I will use other language—it was misleading, it was not the truth, it failed to be delivered, it was a breach of trust. We can use any language we like, but we know what the meaning is. Katy Gallagher said one thing and she did another. You can look in the dictionary for what that word means because I am pretty clear what it is.

I encourage members of this Assembly to support my motion, and I foreshadow we will not be supporting the amendment from the Labor Party. (Time expired.)

Question put:

That Ms Gallagher’s amendment, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 6
Mr Barr	Mr Hargreaves	Mr Coe	Mr Smyth
Dr Bourke	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

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Residential Tenancies (Minimum Housing Standards) Amendment Bill 2011

Debate resumed from 24 August 2011, on motion by Mr Rattenbury:

That this bill be agreed to in principle.

MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (11.51): The intention behind this bill is noble. No-one, I would hope, could disagree with the idea of making ACT rental housing better, safer, more energy efficient and generally more liveable. The government certainly does not. However, the government cannot support this bill today. While we welcome moves to improve the quality of rental stock in the ACT and the stated aims of this bill, there are ways that ACT rental stock can be improved that will not have the serious negative effect that this bill is likely to have on the ACT’s private rental market.

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