Page 1731 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 15 May 2019

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Greens. We know the role that they have had in preselections; we know the role that they have in policy development; we know the role they had in the secure local jobs code; we know the role they had in pressuring Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith. We know the Labor Party, through the Labor Club, is another major property developer in the ACT. When it comes to the big end of town, it is the ACT Labor government that has been working very closely with their vested interests.

The risk of having Bill Shorten—who has form when it comes to cosying up with corporates, in addition to Labor’s appetite for taxation—as Prime Minister means that unfairness and disparity in our community are only going to get greater. That will be the legacy of this Labor government. After 18 years of Labor we have the most expensive rents in the country, some of the most expensive land in the country; homelessness is on the increase; rates and land tax are out of control. It is appalling. This government has form when it comes to letting down people in our community that cannot afford to live here.

We of course will be opposing the amendment, but we find it very interesting that at least Andrew Barr, in amongst all his spin, still acknowledges the immense problem that he has created with housing affordability in the territory.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11

Noes 8

Mr Barr

Mr Pettersson

Miss C Burch

Mr Milligan

Ms J Burch

Mr Ramsay

Mr Coe

Mr Parton

Ms Cody

Mr Rattenbury

Mrs Dunne

Ms Fitzharris

Mr Steel

Mrs Jones

Ms Le Couteur

Ms Stephen-Smith

Mrs Kikkert

Ms Orr

Ms Lawder

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Environment—re-usable containers

MS ORR (Yerrabi) (3.57): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) it is estimated that as many as one billion disposable coffee cups are sold each year in Australia and that the majority of these end up in landfill;

(b) while in the ACT we do accept coffee cups to be disposed of in recycling bins, it is better to avoid single use items;

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