The following notices were given:

Mr Lindsay to move:

That this House:

(1) recognises the vital and growing role electronic information transmission plays in education, research and business activity throughout Australia;

(2) further recognises that the availability of adequate capacity, high quality and appropriately priced bandwidth—for the electronic transmission of information—is an important strategic issue for the development of the information economy in Australia;

(3) notes that regional areas throughout Australia have a poorer electronic information infrastructure than metropolitan areas, and the gap is widening; and

(4) acknowledges the urgent need to provide affordable broadband electronic communica tions to Australia's regional centres and, in particular, to our regional universities.

Mr Beazley to move:

That this House notes:

(1) that the national taxation debate is not longer about `tax reform' but merely about `tax change'—and not change for the better;

(2) the Coalition-Democrat tax deal will, in the official estimate of the Treasurer, cost at the very least $20 billion over the first three years of the next century—in terms of the erosion of the Commonwealth budget surplus caused by

the ANTS package, as modified by the Australian Democrats;

(3) the GST fiasco on food alone will create enormous compliance burdens for 370 000 small businesses, in the estimate of the Tax Commissioner, and will, in the words of the Premier of Victoria, be `just diabolical' for businesses such as milkbars and small family-run supermarkets; and

(4) as a result of the GST food fiasco, the States will be required to keep indefinitely a range of state taxes and duties amounting to $2.5 billion which the Government promised prior to the last election would be abolished.