Page 1379 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 June 2020
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Ordered that the amendment be divided.
MADAM SPEAKER: The question now is that paragraph (11) of Mr Coe’s amendment be agreed to.
Paragraph (11) negatived.
Question put:
That paragraph (12) of Mr Coe’s amendment be agreed to.
The Assembly voted—
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Ayes 6 |
Noes 7 | ||
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Mr Coe |
Mr Milligan |
Mr Barr |
Mr Gentleman |
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Mrs Dunne |
Mr Wall |
Ms Berry |
Mr Rattenbury |
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Mr Hanson |
Ms J Burch |
Ms Stephen-Smith | |
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Ms Lawder |
Ms Cheyne | ||
Paragraph (12) negatived.
Mr Gentleman’s amendment agreed to.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (5.08): With the amendment of Mr Gentleman there is now a very clear time line on when information will be available. One factor that limits the ACT government’s ability to have full data is the fact that the commonwealth, which would also normally have had a budget and provided information to us, is not doing so until October.
The commonwealth is not providing its financial update until 23 July. On that date we will have more information about the other half of the territory budget, which, as Mr Coe has pointed out in more than one press conference in recent times, constitutes a very large part of the territory’s overall budget. Our own-source revenue is a little over 40 per cent of the territory budget. The details of the balance, most particularly the GST and other commonwealth payments, will be known by 23 July. The territory government will then, as we normally do, take the time to feed all of that information through our own financial systems and then present a report. It will be for the June quarter, the full fiscal year 2019-20 and a forward estimates outlook. Then the Under Treasurer will undertake the pre-election budget update. So there will be two sets of information.
I get, monthly, our own-source revenue. I reported on that this morning, including that it is down six per cent on the midyear update figures and that, particularly, conveyance duty was down by 20 per cent. I have provided that information. Mr Coe was not even sitting in the chamber for that. I commend the amended motion to the Assembly.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
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