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Third Reading
Ms SANDRA NORI (Port Jackson—Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation, Minister for Women, and Minister Assisting the Minister for State Development) [5.37 p.m.]: I move:
That this bill be now read a third time.
Mr CHRIS HARTCHER (Gosford) [5.37 p.m.]: I move:
That the motion be amended by leaving out the word "now" with a view to adding "on 1 April 2007".
The date 1 April 2007 is appropriate because that is the day all Government Ministers will be going to the Governor to hand in their resignations. Nick Dyer, the excellent Liberal mayor of Leichhardt council—that council now has a Liberal mayor—will take the seat of the Minister for Tourism. At the end of the Iemma Government every Minister will be out of office as they head down to Government House to hand their resignations to the Governor. Nothing would trigger the end of the Iemma Government more than its attempt to force legislation through this House denying the fundamental right not only of people on the North Shore but also the people of New South Wales. Labor's days are numbered and the Iemma Government's days are over. The date 1 April 2007 will be this Government's swan song.
Question—That the words stand—put.
The House divided.
Ayes, 47
Mr Amery
Ms Andrews
Mr Bartlett
Ms Beamer
Mr Black
Mr Brown
Ms Burney
Miss Burton
Mr Campbell
Mr Chaytor
Mr Collier
Mr Corrigan
Mr Crittenden
Mr Daley
Mrs Fardell
Ms Gadiel | Mr Gaudry
Mr Gibson
Mr Greene
Ms Hay
Mr Hickey
Mr Hunter
Ms Judge
Ms Keneally
Mr Lynch
Mr McBride
Mr McLeay
Ms Meagher
Ms Megarrity
Mr Mills
Mr Morris
Mr Newell | Ms Nori
Mr Orkopoulos
Mrs Paluzzano
Mr Pearce
Mrs Perry
Ms Saliba
Mr Sartor
Mr Stewart
Mr Tripodi
Mr Watkins
Mr West
Mr Whan
Mr Yeadon
Tellers,
Mr Ashton
Mr Martin |
Noes, 31
Mr Aplin
Mr Armstrong
Mr Barr
Ms Berejiklian
Mr Cansdell
Mr Constance
Mr Draper
Mr Fraser
Mr Hartcher
Ms Hodgkinson
Mrs Hopwood | Mr Humpherson
Mr Kerr
Mr Merton
Ms Moore
Mr Oakeshott
Mr O'Farrell
Mr Page
Mr Piccoli
Mr Pringle
Mr Richardson
Mr Roberts | Mrs Skinner
Mr Slack-Smith
Mr Souris
Mr Stoner
Mr Torbay
Mr J. H. Turner
Mr R. W. Turner
Tellers,
Mr George
Mr Maguire |
Pair
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Amendment negatived.
Motion agreed to.
Bill read a third time.