Page 1240 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989
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The road in Gordon is part of Knoke Street. Construction of this road will firstly open up South Gordon and then, as Knoke Street is completed, it will connect through to Tharwa Road and thus provide the shortest access route from Johnson Drive at Calwell to the southern portions of Banks and also to travel further south to Tharwa.
The reason for this is that the existing Tharwa Road actually traverses through the edge of Conder and Banks. It is therefore intended to progressively close Tharwa Road and utilise the distributor road system, including Knoke Street, to serve the whole of the South Tuggeranong area. In fact, when Tharwa Drive is closed, this road through Gordon - Knoke Street - will be the shortest route to Tharwa, even beyond Tharwa to Namadgi National Park, and the alternative route to Adaminaby and indeed to Melbourne. It could be renamed "the Melbourne Road".
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I would like to raise a point of order in connection with the misuse of question time. Yesterday the Chief Minister made a statement in connection - - -
MR SPEAKER: Excuse me, Mr Kaine; this is not a point of order. Are you seeking leave to address the Assembly?
Mr Kaine: I am seeking leave - I am making a point of order in connection with the misuse of question time, which I believe I am entitled to do, Mr Speaker. I am raising a point of order on which I am going to seek your judgment when I have concluded making it.
MR SPEAKER: Proceed.
Mr Kaine: Yesterday the Chief Minister opened a debate on the Federal budget. She had all the time permitted by this Assembly to present her case, and other members of the Assembly, including me, had the opportunity to reply. As I understand it, that concluded the debate. This morning, the Chief Minister's office sought and obtained a copy of the comments that I made yesterday, and in question time today, in response to a dorothy dixer, the Chief Minister perpetuated the debate on the Commonwealth budget in a manner that does not allow other members of this Assembly to pick up the debate, and I submit that it gives her an unreasonable opportunity to make the point in a continuation of the debate which I thought had concluded yesterday.
I seek a ruling, Mr Speaker, on the question of whether or not it is appropriate for the Chief Minister to respond to a dorothy dixer in that fashion on a matter on which, for the rest of us, the debate is closed. I would seek a ruling from you as to whether or not in future you intend to accept questions of that kind that put the Chief Minister at an advantage that the rest of the members of this Assembly do not enjoy.
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