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Urgent Motion
Ms ANGELA D'AMORE (Drummoyne) [3.48 p.m.]: I move:
That this House:
(1) welcomes the State Government's Easter in Sydney initiative, which is expected to attract more than 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors, injecting $47 million into the New South Wales economy, creating more than 2,800 direct and flow-on jobs over the holiday period;
(2) notes that the Royal Easter Show is central to the festival, and
(3) condemns the Leader of The Nationals for criticising the State Government's support for the Easter in Sydney program.
In February the Premier launched an exciting new tourism initiative for our State. The festival is Easter in Sydney, which is a celebration of the best sports, arts and entertainment that Sydney has to offer. The festival will be held from 1 to 8 April. The New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development has estimated that the initiative will attract 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors, injecting $47 million into the New South Wales economy, and will create 2,800 direct and flow-on jobs. If ever a tourism initiative should have bipartisan support, it is this one—but not in the eyes of the Opposition. For some reason the Opposition is opposed to the Easter in Sydney proposal and wants to put an end to it.
Can honourable members believe that the Leader of The Nationals spent all of last week badmouthing it? In doing so, he is having a go at all the partners and organisations involved in Easter in Sydney, including the Australian Jockey Club [AJC], the Sydney Turf Club, Luna Park, the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League [NRL], the New South Wales Rugby Union, Sydney's museums and galleries, shows including The Lion King and the Royal Easter Show. These groups support the concept so much that they helped to launch it. None other than the NRL's chief executive officer, Mr David Gallop, the AJC chief executive officer, Mr Tony King, the leading Wests Tigers player, Darren Senter, the Swans star, Jude Bolton, the Sydney Swifts netball players, and the actors and performers from The Lion King and the Bell Shakespeare Company Ltd joined the Premier at the launch.
The Opposition would have us believe that all those groups are on the tourism road to nowhere—just what planet are they on, attacking our best events? For the first time the State Government has taken a co-ordinated approach to promote all the first-class events taking place over the Easter period. The Government has added a number of new ventures such as the National Netball Cup and the Museums Light Up Sydney event. Make no mistake: We want Sydney to be the place to be at Easter. With uncertainty in the international tourism market from North America and Asia we see Easter in Sydney as the perfect festival to attract that lucrative domestic tourist dollar. That is what this initiative is about: Attracting tourists from regional New South Wales, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, tourists who will put money into local hotels, restaurants, shops and small businesses—and that will deliver jobs.
The Government is also targeting those who come to Sydney at Easter for the show, the football or the races, to add another day or two to their trip. If we can encourage visitors from interstate or overseas to stay an extra night it would result in an extra $12 million flowing into the economy. We are leaving no stone unturned in our efforts to ensure the maximum amount of exposure for the festival. Last month 1.2 million copies of the 28-page "Easter in Sydney Ultimate Guide" were distributed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. A national Easter in Sydney advertising campaign began screening this week. Special Easter in Sydney travel packages are now available through Qantas Holidays and Harvey World Travel. Interstate launches have been held in Melbourne and Brisbane. The second-to-none range of discount ticket packages is now on the market. For example, a $99 Easter passport ticket will allow entry to all four days of the AJC Easter Carnival, three NRL matches, a Sydney Swans match, and travel to and entry into the Royal Easter Show.
And that is not all! Later this month 300,000 Easter in Sydney pocket guides will be distributed throughout tourism agencies and TAB outlets in New South Wales. Street banners will be in place throughout the city in March and April. We want Sydney to be part of a celebration, but instead the Opposition wants to close down the city. The proposed Easter in Sydney calendar includes the Royal Easter Show, the new one-week AJC Easter Carnival, the Sydney Turf Club Golden Slipper, the NRL Easter week games, including an NRL double header, two Sydney Swans matches—of which I am a great fan—the New South Wales Waratahs versus Wellington Hurricanes Rugby Union match, a new Sydney Olympic Park Netball Cup, the Australian Swimming Championships, the new Museums Light Up Sydney event, the Easter in Sydney ball, the Australian Easter yearling sales, The Lion King, and a range of outstanding performances at the Sydney Opera House, including those by the Bell Shakespeare Company, the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
And that is just the start. Other great attractions include the bridge climb, visits to the Blue Mountains and Sydney Harbour cruises, to name but a few. There is one more part of the program—the unofficial start of the 18-day Easter in Sydney festival—that will be the icing on the party cake: the great Sydney icon Luna Park will reopen on Sunday 4 April. That venue will provide yet another entertainment option for families and another major drawcard for our city. Easter in Sydney is a massive job generator and a great time to be in the city. Members opposite want to put a stop to the 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors, the injection of $47 million into the New South Wales economy and more than 2,800 direct and flow-on jobs—all out the window. Opposition by name, opposition by nature. Opposition members are totally out of step with all concerned. This event has the full support of the tourism industry and has been supported by editorials in the Daily Telegraph and the Land. But the Opposition wants to stop it before it gets off the ground. Well, we will not have a bar of that. We will not stand for it.
Mr IAN ARMSTRONG (Lachlan) [3.56 p.m.]: In the interests of this debate, it is important for me to clear the deck as to what the Leader of The Nationals said. Let us take away the guesswork, the innuendo and the sly calls. A media release issued by the Leader of The Nationals stated:
Stoner Calls On Sydney Labor To Stage A Country Tourism Festival
NSW Leader of The Nationals, Andrew Stoner, today called on the Sydney Labor Government to focus more on regional tourism and stage a tourism festival in country New South Wales—
Nothing wrong with that. The media release continued:
Mr Stoner said Mr Carr had recently launched a major new tourism initiative for Sydney entitled Easter In Sydney—a two-week sporting, arts and entertainment festival including the AJC Easter Racing Carnival, The Archibald Prize, The Lion King and NRL, AFL and Rugby Union matches—
Nothing wrong with that. The media release further stated:
"Where is Labor's same commitment to rural and regional tourism? A similar annual festival in a country location would be a good start", Mr Stoner said—
he asked for a similar festival—
"Mr Carr announced that the Easter in Sydney festival would be backed by a national advertising campaign, street banners and special discount travel packages and passes.
"I call on Mr Carr to show the same commitment to a country festival and inject State funds into promoting existing events in country areas such as picnic races and attracting new events such as high profile sporting games. Like Easter in Sydney these events could be coordinated and staged over a two-week period.
"Such a festival would inject much needed dollars and jobs into a country location.
Mr Stoner said rural and regional areas deserve to be part of any State Government tourism campaigns.
"There is a vast tourism potential just waiting to be tapped in country and coastal NSW but Sydney Labor is failing to turn this potential into reality due to sheer laziness," Mr Stoner said.
"Only two per cent of international visitors to Sydney travel west of the Blue Mountains.
"Adding to the problem is that the NSW Labor Government cut the tourism budget by 10 per cent this financial year.
"It's time Sydney Labor got serious about attracting more domestic and international tourists to regional areas."
I feel that the Government has misled the House by moving this motion today. In part, the motion states:
(3) condemns the Leader of The Nationals for criticising the State Government's support for the Easter in Sydney program.
The Leader of The Nationals has not criticised the Government in relation to the Easter in Sydney festival. That complementary, commonsense and practical festival will fill a major gap that has been left by the Labor Party. I refer again to the Royal Easter Show. I am about to attend my forty-ninth Royal Easter Show.
Ms Angela D'Amore: I am not that old.
Mr IAN ARMSTRONG: The honourable member may not be that old, but I am not that old either. However, I am old enough to enjoy the Royal Easter Show and I am able to work at that show. I hope that Government members will be working this year at the Royal Easter Show. I will be stewarding in the ring for a five-day period and I will be showing a horse.
Mr Carl Scully: Point of order: The honourable member is a cranky old grump.
Mr IAN ARMSTRONG: And the Minister is old for his time. Today I want to refer to several issues. Visitors will come to Sydney for the Royal Easter Show and the Easter in Sydney festival. Is the Government able to guarantee that there will be no problems with policing and that emergency health services will be up to full strength? Tourists need confidence in the provision of government services. Can the Government guarantee that the trains will run? Will there be any public service strikes? If the Government is able to give us those guarantees, tourists will have confidence in those government services. This festival is predicated on the Royal Easter Show, which is a wonderful institution. It is expected that more than one million people will go through the gates, provided we have favourable weather.
Earlier Government members alluded to the fact that this festival will draw more than 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors. The fourteenth World Hereford Conference, which is to be held in Sydney, will draw about 11,000 visitors, so of course there will be 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors. If we do not get 100,000 visitors it could be said of the Government that it is not trying. Government members are not aware of the figures. They do not know how many volunteers and casual workers will be attending the Royal Easter Show. According to the chief executive officer of the Royal Agricultural Society, there will be 750 volunteers and casual workers at the show—people in white coats, gatekeepers and stewards.
How many hundreds of people from country New South Wales will be stewards at the Royal Easter Show? There will probably be 600 or 700 stewards—stewards for everything from fruit and vegetables, cats and dogs, sheep, beef and dairy cattle, and in the ring. Some of those stewards come to Sydney for three or four weeks, and they pay for their own expenses. They do not ask for a cent in funding, and they do not get a cent; they pay for their own tucker. The Wrights—women from Cowra—spend a couple of weeks cooking to feed stewards in the exhibition areas. People from the South Coast come to Sydney and cook for a couple of weeks to feed dairy cattle exhibitors. Government members, who are laughing at what I have to say, should visit the Royal Sydney Show and give those people a hand.
The Royal Easter Show is run through the good offices of volunteers, exhibitors and showmen. The Bell family still owns a lot of the rides at the Royal Easter Show, which is the peak of the country show season. The Royal Easter Show is predicated on the success of country shows. Most of the animals have to accrue sufficient points in country shows before they are eligible to participate in the Royal Easter Show. Horses and many of the dogs have to accrue points in other country and regional shows. The honourable member for Drummoyne referred earlier to yearling shows—an important money generator that draws to Sydney an entirely different group of people from across Australia, Asia, Hong Kong and the Middle East. That is a famous event.
The majority of those yearlings come from country areas—the Hunter Valley, the Cowra district and north-western areas. That is where the racehorses are bred. What is this Government doing to racing? Temora used to have 10 TAB meetings a year, but it now has two. Junee used to have eight TAB meetings a year, but it now has two. Those Government members who are laughing should go to Temora and Junee and laugh about it there. Recently 14 greyhound clubs were not closed because of the enormous lobbying that was done by the Greyhound Racing Authority. The Government backed off and gave those clubs another go for 12 months. People in country New South Wales are looking for equal opportunities.
We are looking for support for our regional opera at Orange, Bathurst, Cowra and Young. We are looking for support for our art shows—our regional and district galleries in towns such as Temora and Condobolin. We are looking for support for our wine shows, such as the regional wine shows at Mudgee and in the Hunter and this nation's second biggest wine show at Cowra. The Government should give us some support. Those things do not receive one cent in funding from this Government. We are looking for support for sports such as football, cricket, netball, swimming and horse sports. There are not too many horse sports such as camp drafting throughout the country because of public liability insurance.
This Government has done nothing about public liability insurance. Three years ago we lost many of our regional airlines, which resulted in many problems for tourism. The Government rejected concessional payroll tax for new jobs for people under the age of 25, which put a major blight on young people getting jobs in this State. We are asking for a fair crack of the whip for the 30 per cent of people who live in country areas who generate 40 per cent of the gross domestic product in this State. We need some assistance in running the Easter in Sydney festival. Opposition members support the Easter in Sydney festival, but this Government should give people in the bush a go. They should not tell lies about what the Leader of The Nationals is saying. What the Leader of The Nationals had to say about the festival is available in black and white. People in the bush are doing their bit. Country Labor members—the honourable member for Murray-Darling, a fine, upstanding gentleman, is the convenor of Country Labor—should join The Nationals in sticking up for the bush. We need races at Menindee and art shows at Wilcannia. [Time expired.]
Mr PETER BLACK (Murray-Darling) [4.06 p.m.]: What a fine accolade from my good friend the honourable member for Lachlan. He knows what the Royal Easter Show is about. He referred to every aspect of the Royal Sydney Show, except one: the showgirls. I will refer to that issue later. The honourable member for Lachlan is the last great leader of the Country Party, the National Party, the "Notional Party" or whatever it is. He knows what the Royal Easter Show is about. But where is his leader? He should be in this Chamber defending himself. The Leader of The Nationals could not have made the speech that the honourable member for Lachlan just made because he does not know the difference between a Corriedale and a Peppin. He would not be aware of the fact that the honourable member for Lachlan has acted as a steward in the ring at the Royal Easter Show. The Leader of the Nationals is not capable of doing those things. When the honourable member for Lachlan acts as a steward at the next Royal Easter Show he should strap his leader to the Ferris wheel. As it is Easter he should put him in the Christian position. He can then go round in circles and inspect the Royal Easter Show.
Mr Ian Armstrong: Point of order: People at the Royal Easter Show usually make that sort of journey after visiting the bar.
Mr DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Order! That is not a point of order. The honourable member for Murray-Darling will resume his speech.
Mr Ian Armstrong: Are you supporting the Greens amendment in the upper House?
Mr PETER BLACK: The honourable member would be well aware that I do not associate with the Greens. I refer again to the showgirls. My good friend the honourable member for Lachlan, in his leadership days, used to bring showgirls into this House. He used to take them around Parliament House to give them that experience. The new, temporary Leader of the "Notional Party" wants to stop the trains from running so that the showgirls are not able to visit Parliament House. The former Leader of the National Party, who is leaving the Chamber and who should remain so that he can hear my speech, used to walk around Parliament House with the showgirls. I do not know what the current Leader of The Nationals has against them.
In the time remaining to me I refer to The Saddle Club—a major feature at this year's show. The honourable member for Lachlan did not mention either the showgirls or The Saddle Club—a great club. I refer honourable members to the magnificent article about The Saddle Club in last Sunday's Sunday Telegraph. The club, which is a joint Australian-Canadian production, is broadcast in 13 countries. I am told that sale of The Saddle Club merchandise is worth about $15 million a year. I am further informed that the actors from The Saddle Club will attract about a quarter of a million visitors to the Royal Easter Show. That is a tremendous attraction that the temporary leader of the "Notional Party" should not knock.
We should all support that show, which, among other things, is a great favourite with young girls. The stars of the show—Sophie Bennett, Keenan MacWilliam and Lara Marshall—are three magnificent ladies. They will be at the Royal Easter Show and visitors, particularly young girls from the bush, will want to meet and greet them. Many people think the Royal Easter Show is about blokes coming down from the bush to play around with rams and put cattle in a yard. But there is a role for women—not only showgirls—at the Royal Easter Show.
The Government is getting on with the job. The temporary leader of the "Notional Party" came out with some outrageous statements—he ignored the showgirls issue completely—but he failed to mention John Anderson's little party in Queensland, when he stopped the water coming across the border into New South Wales. I note that Opposition members are not trying to take points of order; I am sure that they want me to keep talking about showgirls. The program for the Easter festival in Sydney includes the Australian Jockey Club Easter carnival, the Sydney Turf Club Golden Slipper and a rugby league double-header. I regret to report that there will also be two Sydney Swans matches; I think we get points for missing those games. The New South Wales Waratahs will play the Wellington Hurricanes rugby union team. The new Sydney Olympic Park Netball Cup will be held, as will the Australian Swimming Championships. The new Museums Light Up Sydney event will take place, the Australian Easter Yearling Sales will be held and The Lion King musical will be performed. If done properly this Easter festival will be as good for Sydney pro rata as the Olympic Games, and it is rubbish for the temporary leader of the "Notional Party" to knock it.
Mr ANDREW TINK (Epping) [4.11 p.m.]: As the honourable member for Lachlan ably pointed out, the Leader of The Nationals clearly supports the Easter in Sydney festival. However—and here's the rub—the Premier and those Labor members who are about to spend their Easter break in Japan obviously do not support it. The reality is—and the honourable member for Drummoyne needs to get her head around this—that members of the Labor party are about to board business-class flights to Japan over the Easter recess. Those members of the parliamentary Labor caucus do not want to spend Easter in Sydney; they would rather spend their time in Tokyo. Members of the Labor caucus would rather spend $120,000 of taxpayers' money in Tokyo. That money would be better spent in Sydney, supporting the Easter festival.
Coalition members will be in Sydney for Easter. The Leader of The Nationals and the Leader of the Opposition will go to the Easter show. Which members of the Labor caucus will be absent without leave for Easter in Sydney because they will be in Tokyo? Memorandum to members of the Labor Party: Easter in Sydney is held not in Tokyo but in Sydney. The Premier must understand that Easter in Sydney is held in Sydney. During question time the Premier said that some Labor caucus members would be not in Sydney but in Tokyo for Easter. If the Premier is fair dinkum about the Easter in Sydney festival, he should spend Easter in Sydney and make sure that Labor caucus members do the same.
I trust that some trains will be running to transport all the interstate and overseas visitors who will come to Sydney for Easter. We used to hope that some trains would run on time but now we hope that some trains will run at all. I hope that none of our interstate and overseas visitors get ill while they are in Sydney. If they do, they will have to run the gauntlet of the New South Wales hospital system, which, thanks to the administrators and the Minister for Health, who will not take responsibility for what occurs in the system, cannot guarantee treatment for some of the health problems that might afflict visitors. The Minister for Health has so mishandled the health system in this State that hospitals cannot give that guarantee, despite the best efforts of doctors and nurses. I also trust that none of our interstate and overseas visitors will go to Redfern, because if they do their safety cannot be guaranteed.
I shall seek to amend the motion because the Leader of The Nationals strongly supports Easter in Sydney and my amendment reflects the fact that those who do not support the Easter festival are Labor members, not National or Liberal members. I move:
That the motion be amended by leaving out paragraph (3) with a view to inserting instead the following paragraph:
(3) calls on the Government to cancel the proposed New South Wales parliamentary delegation visit to Japan over the Easter recess to support the Government's Easter initiative.
If Labor members are fair dinkum about supporting the Easter in Sydney festival they should support this amendment. Not one member of the Labor caucus should be absent overseas during the Easter in Sydney festival. This amendment will remind all members of caucus that Easter in Sydney happens in Sydney, not in Tokyo. They might have a lovely Easter festival in Tokyo but the one that matters will be held in Sydney. We will be here. I invite Labor members to support the amendment and the Easter in Sydney festival.
Ms TANYA GADIEL (Parramatta) [4.17 p.m.]: The honourable member for Epping is obviously fascinated by Tokyo, our nurses and our health care system. He is worried about visitors receiving treatment in our health care system. The people most likely to be injured during the Easter break are those who get in the path of the honourable member for Davidson as he rushes to board a plane to Tokyo.
We have all heard about the Easter in Sydney festival, which is a celebration of the best sports, arts and entertainment that Sydney has to offer. We have heard about the economic benefits: the potential to attract 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors; the injection of $47 million into the New South Wales economy; and the creation of more than 2,800 direct and flow-on jobs. But the event has another key feature that will benefit many families and small businesses. The Easter in Sydney festival recognises the value and contribution of Western Sydney to major events in New South Wales. I refer honourable members to the festival program. The Parramatta rugby league team will play South Sydney at Parramatta Stadium on Easter Monday. I wish the Rabbitohs good luck—I think they will need it because I have heard that the Eels are more slippery than ever this year. There will be the Sydney Turf Club Golden Slipper Day at Rosehill, the National Rugby League doubleheader on Easter Sunday at Homebush, the new netball cup featuring Australia's best two teams—the Sydney Swifts and Melbourne Phoenix—at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush, the V8 Supercar Series at Eastern Creek and, last but not least, the Royal Easter Show.
These events have been promoted interstate. Hotels in Parramatta, Homebush and the Greater West feature prominently in package deals so our events and our region are being seen on interstate television commercials and in more than 1.5 million promotion guides. For the first time, Western Sydney is at the front and centre of a major multimillion dollar tourism initiative. And—surprise, surprise—the Liberals and The National are doing all they can to spike it. Why would they not? They simply could not care less about Western Sydney; the fact is they never have. They do not even acknowledge that Western Sydney is a region, and that is why families have rejected them for three consecutive State elections.
On the other hand, the Government is actively encouraging tourists from Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast to see what Western Sydney has to offer. In the Parramatta region tourists can stay at international standard hotels, attend games at world-class sporting venues and go to one of Australia's greatest race days all on the same weekend. Then there is our range of entertainment venues where the money will flow, and the Parramatta hotels, restaurants, theatres, shops and small businesses. How can this event be talked down? If Parramatta can attract only a small part of the 27,000 interstate and overseas visitors, the $47 million into the New South Wales economy and the more than 2,800 direct and flow-on jobs, it will make a real difference.
I also remind the House that the Government has proudly invested in sporting and entertainment facilities in Western Sydney, facilities that now enabled the region to take part in such an exciting new event. There is also the huge redevelopment of the Parramatta central business district and the massive shift of State Government jobs to the region. That would not happen under a Coalition government. Make no mistake: Parramatta is alive and we want to be part of the great Easter celebration. Members of the Opposition should hang their heads for trying to stop the region playing a part in such a great initiative.
Ms ANGELA D'AMORE (Drummoyne) [4.21 p.m.], in reply: The Leader of The Nationals is still not in the Chamber. That is amazing. Where is he? Perhaps he is intimidated by female politicians. Where in his press release does the Leader of The Nationals state that he supports the initiatives of the State Government? Where does he state that the money that will be injected into New South Wales is good for the people of New South Wales? Where does he refer to the jobs this initiative will create and the regional sporting events that will be highlighted? The honourable member for Parramatta has referred to that. Where in his media release does the Leader of The Nationals support the festival?
I note the comment yesterday of the Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation that the State Government has gone a long way to promote country and regional festivals, one of which is the popular Tamworth country music festival. I note also that the honourable member for Murray-Darling referred to The Saddle Club and how regional and rural women will benefit from the events that will be staged in Sydney. As a woman I am supportive of our regional and rural women and look forward to them coming to Sydney. The Leader of The Nationals has not acknowledged that in his media release.
Mr Peter Black: Or the showgirls.
Ms ANGELA D'AMORE: And, of course, there is no reference to the showgirls. It is clear that the Government is committed to injecting tourism dollars into New South Wales and the Easter in Sydney festival is a wonderful way to do that. Instead of criticising the Government the Opposition should come on board. It should celebrate the initiatives that will be launched during the next couple of weeks. All I hear from the Opposition is criticism and negativity. It is not proactive; it is only reactive. We will see what happens in the next three weeks because we know the tourism industry is right behind us. We know that our sporting leaders are behind us on these initiatives and we will not be stopped.
We will not be criticised by the Opposition for providing these opportunities in New South Wales. We have an obligation to do so. I am at a loss to understand the comments of the honourable member for Epping, who did not add anything productive to the debate. All he did was allow us to highlight some of the trips that his colleagues in the Opposition have taken—heading off to Hawaii in their board shorts, et cetera. The honourable member for Epping should review some of the concerns he put on the record. I also note that the honourable member for Lachlan attacked our police. Every time we come into this Chamber it is either our nurses or our police who are being attacked by the Opposition. The honourable member for Lachlan questioned the ability of our Police Force to manage these events in New South Wales.
The Government does not tell the police how to do their job: we support them in how they do their job. Those of us on this side of the Chamber are getting tired of constantly having to listen to the Opposition criticise our police officers, who do a marvellous job day in, day out in extreme circumstances. We support them. The Opposition criticises the nurses who work day in, day out in our public hospitals. They look after our loved ones and make hard decisions in relation to clinical practice and patient care. When I was with the Nurses Association I represented 50,000 nurses, and I continue to support them. The Easter in Sydney initiative should only be complimented. I congratulate the Government on being proactive and providing the initiatives and facilitating the massive injection of funds into the economy of New South Wales.
Question—That the words stand—put.
The House divided.
[In division]
Mr Andrew Tink: Point of order: Mr Speaker, when I finished speaking about my foreshadowed amendment the Deputy-Speaker, Mr Price, put the question as being, That the amendment be agreed to. Just before the division was called the Deputy-Speaker put the question as being, That the words proposed to be left out stand. We have two contradictory questions in that the Deputy-Speaker put the question, That the amendment be agreed to, and then, subsequently, That the words proposed to be left out stand. I would like to know, given those contradictory statements made by the Deputy-Speaker, what in fact is the question we are voting on.
Mr SPEAKER: Order! Clearly, the final determination by Mr Deputy-Speaker is what the House is voting on. I propose the division to be on the question, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question.
Ayes, 48
Ms Allan
Mr Amery
Ms Andrews
Ms Beamer
Mr Black
Mr Brown
Ms Burney
Mr Campbell
Mr Collier
Mr Corrigan
Mr Crittenden
Ms D'Amore
Mr Debus
Ms Gadiel
Mr Gaudry
Mr Gibson
Mr Greene | Ms Hay
Mr Hickey
Mr Hunter
Mr Iemma
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
Mr Price
Dr Refshauge
Mr Sartor
Mr Shearan
Mr Stewart
Mr Tripodi
Mr Watkins
Mr West
Mr Whan
Mr Yeadon
Tellers,
Mr Ashton
Mr Martin |
Noes, 35
Mr Aplin
Mr Armstrong
Mr Barr
Ms Berejiklian
Mr Cansdell
Mr Constance
Mr Debnam
Mr Draper
Mr Fraser
Mrs Hancock
Mr Hartcher
Ms Hodgkinson | Mrs Hopwood
Mr Humpherson
Mr Kerr
Mr McGrane
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 Tink
Mr Torbay
Mr J. H. Turner
Mr R.W. Turner
Tellers,
Mr George
Mr Maguire |
Pairs
| Mr Bartlett | Mr Brogden |
| Mr Carr | Mr Hazzard |
| Ms Saliba | Mr Seaton |
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Amendment negatived.
Motion agreed to.
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