Page 1988 - Week 07 - Thursday, 13 August 2020

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follow the Labor Party into a bad motion and let them off the hook for the housing crisis that they have created with the Greens’ support. It is pretty damning.

After 19 years of Labor, $575 is the median rent and $819,000 is the median price of a block of land. Thirty-six thousand people are living below the poverty line. Tens of thousands of people have given up hope of ever owning a home in the ACT. We have a chronic undersupply of community housing, yet the Greens are still giving in to every one of Labor’s demands. It shows just how bad this marriage is between the Labor Party and the Greens. The Canberra Liberals will keep standing up for the thousands of people in this city who deserve the opportunity to live in affordable accommodation, for Canberrans who deserve the opportunity to buy their own homes and for Canberrans who deserve to have enough money left over after paying rent to buy food.

There are a lot of people in this city who are doing it tough, and Labor and the Greens are just not looking. They would rather look at their own cosy deal than at the welfare of so many people in this city who are struggling. This government has let down so many people, and it has all been because of the Greens giving way to the Labor Party at every single opportunity. The Greens are just as responsible as the Labor Party.

Question put:

That Ms Le Couteur’s amendment to Ms Berry’s proposed amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 12

Noes 9

Ms Berry

Mr Pettersson

Miss C Burch

Mr Parton

Ms J Burch

Mr Ramsay

Mr Coe

Mr Wall

Ms Cheyne

Mr Rattenbury

Mrs Dunne

Mr Gentleman

Mr Steel

Mr Hanson

Mr Gupta

Ms Stephen-Smith

Mrs Kikkert

Ms Le Couteur

Ms Lawder

Ms Orr

Mr Milligan

Amendment agreed to.

Ms Berry’s amendment, as amended, agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Hospitals—elective surgery

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (4.24): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes the importance of elective surgery for the continued health of the Canberra community;

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