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means, and it is not what Miss C Burch said today. She knows that. She has been here when we have discussed this at length.

Mr Hanson: There are no cars. She just quoted Mr Rattenbury.

MS CHEYNE: From when did she quote Minister Rattenbury?

Mr Hanson: Well, she did.

MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: The speaker will be heard in silence.

MS CHEYNE: I am not going to continue to have a conversation with the opposition, but at a point in time when people read back in Hansard I certainly do not want them to look at Miss C Burch’s statements and think that they are gospel, because they are not. It is not true.

We need to go right back to look at all the other conversations that we have had in this place about car-free events. We already do them. We already do them with Enlighten and we already do them with the Multicultural Festival. Creating this fearmongering that somehow the government is going to take people’s cars away from them is simply not true, and allowing that to stand in this place is not something that I am going to put up with, and nor are my Labor colleagues and nor are the Greens, who have also stood up in this place as well.

I also want to acknowledge (3)(a) in Miss C Burch’s amendment, which, as Ms Cody noted, is bizarre: “that … Labor Members continue to sanctimoniously refuse to acknowledge the ongoing chaos with regard to Canberra’s bus network”. We do refuse to acknowledge ongoing chaos because it is not ongoing chaos, but we absolutely have been acknowledging that there are improvements to be made. Minister Steele has iterated this. This was a massive change. We absolutely changed things. We acknowledge that. For a vast number of people it is much better. There are some people where we need to do more work. We understand this. We discussed this most recently in an MPI, which Miss C Burch was here for as well. So continuing to pretend that these conversations have not happened, that these debates have not ensued in this place, is just ridiculous. I really expect better from the opposition.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

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