Page 3253 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 23 August 2017

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was a shipping container and you could not buy fresh milk. The very limited number of local residents who lived in Gungahlin at the time were very pleased when Gungahlin got more local shops and they did not have to venture all the way to town to get fresh milk.

I think the development of Canberra is a good thing. I think more people being Canberran is a good thing.

I understand some of Ms Le Couteur’s concerns about the ecological footprint and the rising costs of government. They are somewhat substantiated. I accept them. I do, however, have concerns about the criticism in her amendments of population growth in general terms. On the whole I support the motion unamended. I encourage other members to do so as well.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 2	Noes 20
Ms Le Couteur	Mr Barr	Mrs Kikkert
Mr Rattenbury	Ms Berry	Ms Lawder
	Ms Burch	Ms Lee
	Ms Cheyne	Mr Milligan
	Ms Cody	Ms Orr
	Mr Coe	Mr Parton
	Ms Fitzharris	Mr Pettersson
	Mr Gentleman	Mr Ramsay
	Mr Hanson	Mr Steel
	Mrs Jones	Mr Wall

Amendment negatived.

Original question resolved in the affirmative.

Director of Public Prosecutions—funding

MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (4.10): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) noted in the agency’s 2016 2017 Annual Report that funding for the DPP was “at a critical level”;

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