The ACT will hold an election soon, and members of the legislative assembly have been ramping up attacks on their opposition in preparation.
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00:00The Greens were told today they couldn't put their proposal for a centralised monitoring
00:07system to a vote. They were told that was out of order. Labor had flagged its own amendment
00:13to reduce the number of poker machines in the territory to 1,000 by 2045. Now ultimately
00:19it didn't put that up, despite the Greens later saying they'd have backed it anyway.
00:25Now there are different versions on both sides as to how this played out behind the scenes
00:30but it appears both Labor and the Greens have attempted to show some product differentiation
00:37ahead of the election. For its part the opposition has largely stayed out of this dispute but
00:42has kept up its attacks on both parties.
00:46We were willing to walk into the Assembly today and vote for their amendment. Now bizarrely
00:50the Labor Party did not move their amendment today and I cannot understand why they did
00:54that.
00:55The easiest and simplest way to address this at this point was to focus on the areas where
01:00there was agreement, where the legislation could pass without dispute.
01:05Canberra Liberals have really been able to step up and show the Canberra community just
01:10how diabolical this Labor-Greens government has been.
01:13Most members are of course gearing up for a campaign but two who we know won't be back
01:18after the election are the Speaker Joy Birch and Liberal MLA Nicole Lauder. They've both
01:24given their valedictory speeches over the last two days and drawn some favourable reflections
01:29from all sides.
01:31So the government will officially go into caretaker mode next Friday which signals the
01:36starting gun for the five week campaign and election day of course is the 19th of October.