Page 2354 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 1 November 1989
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Now, I think I know - and I think we all know - the basis of the allegations made in this press statement.
Mr Moore: Which allegations? Be specific about the allegations.
MR DUBY: I am going to go through them in a moment, Mr Moore. Mr Collaery also features in this release. His name is the only name mentioned.
Ms Follett: And mine.
MR DUBY: And the Chief Minister's, of course; she gets her sixpence worth in. Whilst Mr Moore and Mr Collaery may be in the middle of a lovers' tiff, or whatever, I do not think it is appropriate that the good intentions of myself, Mr Kaine and Mr Wood should also be brought into question. For example, this statement says:
The Legislative Assembly's Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee report on the Canberra Times site has told the Follett Government exactly what it wanted to hear according to Independent MLA Michael Moore.
"The Committee's conclusions couldn't have been more to the Government's liking if Ms Follett had written them herself", Mr Moore said. "Its recommendations are a victory for political party machinery dedicated to a narrow view of Canberra's economic future".
Well, Mr Speaker, the inference that I take from that is that the committee has received instructions from Ms Follett, advising us in some way as to what the recommendations of the committee should be, advising us of the Government's preferred outcome of our inquiry, and I, personally, take umbrage at that sort of inference.
It then goes on with a number of personal attacks against the chairman of the committee, and I will not go into that domestic argument. But it then goes on to say that Mr Collaery has effectively endorsed a majority view. It says:
He has endorsed the call for one more office block building to be put up in Civic, saying that next time there should be an environmental impact assessment before any new projects are approved. That is exactly what was recommended when the Federal Joint Parliamentary Committee on the ACT gave the go ahead on the Section 38 development. We were stuck in a time warp. How many more projects will the Committee, or Mr Collaery for that matter, approve of, saying, just one more building and then we will have an EIS?
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