Page 1057 - Week 06 - Thursday, 27 July 1989
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, I have probably missed the moment now, but I would like to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Dr Kinloch.
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, my fellow members, friends and colleagues, it is so easy to be misunderstood in this life, is it not, and I assure members of the Assembly and anyone else listening that, when I quote what for me is a very powerful and vital source, I do not intend it to be directed at anyone. If anyone felt that it was personally so directed, I wish to say it was not so directed. These are 5,000, 4,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,000-year-old principles I am talking about, and those principles were true then, they were true 2,000 years ago, they are true today. They were not directed at any individual.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT - STANDING COMMITTEE
MR HUMPHRIES (12.07): I move:
That paragraph (2) of the reference of matters, concerning waste management, to the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment be amended by omitting "31 October 1989" and substituting "the first sitting day of 1990".
The Assembly will recall that some weeks ago it referred to the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment two substantial inquiries. One of those was on an integrated environment policy for the ACT and the other was on the management of domestic and commercial waste.
The former of those two inquiries is due to report by the first sitting day of 1990 and, as previously resolved, the latter of those two inquiries was to report by 31 October this year. It has become clear to me - and this has been discussed with other members of the committee - that that earlier reporting date simply is not viable. I believe that the Assembly should view a later sitting date as being desirable.
It would allow both those inquiries to proceed together and to integrate the important features of both of those to ensure that we have an integrated view of the whole question that both those issues raise. It would also allow us to receive submissions from organisations that do not feel they could do a good job in the limited time available to us. I commend the motion to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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