Page 1285 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989
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Those sorts of things are not possible. We have to set a framework in which we work and we have to then make sure we can attract people on those terms. Frankly, Mr Speaker, I do not believe it is possible to be too restrictive about that. We have here the possibility of a proper development. I believe it is important for us to free up the process and allow those jobs and that development to go ahead.
Discussion concluded.
LAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT -
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE
Reference
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition)(5.35): I seek leave to move the motion which I foreshadowed earlier and which I understand has been distributed to members.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: I move:
That -
(1) the Government, having regard for the present economic situation in the ACT and the necessity for ensuring a continuing program of work, takes immediate steps to resolve the impasse in connection with the redevelopment of the Canberra Times site;
(2) the Assembly refer to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure, for consideration and advice, the matter of other specific projects which are under threat as a consequence of the Canberra Times site decision, and how those projects might be expedited by the Government; and
(3) the Government moves immediately to resolve the longer term problems of land planning, development and use in the ACT.
I will not spend too much time speaking to the motion. I spoke to most of this while I was making my speech on the MPI in the first place. Members will see that it is broken into three parts, and I think there are three parts of this problem. The first part of the motion has to do with the Government taking urgent and positive steps to resolve the impasse in connection with the Canberra Times site itself. That is the first problem, the first cab off the rank.
The second part of it has to do with this Assembly assisting the Government to determine a process by which other projects that are coming down the line in the immediate future behind the Canberra Times site can be
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