Animal Liberation ACT members and their dogs held a protest march on the weekend to let the MLAs know what they thought of this.

The debate has been brought on by Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne, who moved a motion of disallowance during the Assembly's last sitting stint, in October.

Mrs Dunne, the opposition's spokeswoman on industrial relations, said the figures from surveys of opinions on fireworks showed many Canberrans supported their regulated use on the Queen's Birthday long weekend.

''What we're doing with the disallowance motion is attempting to bring cracker night back to ACT families,'' she said.

''We believe that the latest figures commissioned by the former minister show the majority of Canberrans were in support [of the continued sale of fireworks].''

The permanent ban on the importation, sale and use of consumer fireworks was put in place by former industrial relations minister John Hargreaves in August.

In his retirement speech last month, he said this was one of his proudest achievements from his time in Cabinet.

Bernard Brennan, the president of Animal Liberation ACT, said the protest on Saturday was to make the point that fireworks should remain banned for the welfare of animals across the Territory.

He said he could not believe the issue had been opened up for debate again.

''We have nothing against organised events like Skyfire because it's organised and happens at a set time and then it's over, but with the open sale of fireworks they end up in the hands of idiots and it goes on for weeks,'' he said.

''I've seen first hand the effects it has on animals.''

He described having to free horses from barbed wire fences and scrape dead pets off roads over cracker weekend and said his own kitchen had been destroyed by a frantic dog scared by noisy fireworks.

''It looked like a murder scene, the amount of blood she spread from scraping her paws on the wood,'' he said.

A spokesman for the Greens said they would not support the disallowance motion because they already had a position to ban fireworks.

This means the overturn of the ban is unlikely, since the government is not expected to reverse its policy decision.