Page 497 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 15 February 2017

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The Assembly voted—

Ayes 12		Noes 9
Ms Berry	Ms Orr	Mr Coe	Mr Milligan
Ms Burch	Mr Pettersson	Mrs Dunne	Mr Parton
Ms Cheyne	Mr Ramsay	Mr Hanson	Mr Wall
Ms Cody	Mr Rattenbury	Mrs Jones
Mr Gentleman	Mr Steel	Mrs Kikkert
Ms Le Couteur	Ms Stephen-Smith	Ms Lee

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Answer to question on notice

Statement by member

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.55): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a brief statement to correct the record.

Leave granted.

MRS DUNNE: Thank you, Madam Speaker, and thank you to the members of the Assembly. I have come down here at the first possible opportunity to confess that my office did receive the answer to question on notice No 1 in the course of the morning. As I walked out at question time and asked had we received the answer, my senior adviser said that he did not hear me ask the question. He admits that it was his mistake. It may have been that I had a very small voice if he did not hear me. He does admit that it is the first mistake that he has made since voting for Gough in 1972.

Business confidence

MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (3.56): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) the ACT Government has pursued economic diversification and growth by:

(i) raising the ACT’s payroll tax threshold to the highest in the country at $2 million—exempting many local businesses from this tax;

(ii) abolishing insurance duties and land tax for all businesses;

(iii) securing direct international flights to Singapore and New Zealand;

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