Page 2819 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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set up some interim bodies to delay the proper implementation of accountable mechanisms in this Territory?
Indeed, most members are aware that the Assembly has politically accountable environment and planning committees. These committees are able to obtain advice from wherever they wish. They are able to consider such projects and, as we have seen on the committee that Mr Humphries chairs, they are able to decide and to make recommendations when and in such manner as they see fit. The proposal implies that those committees are not, in effect, performing the role that is now sought for this committee. Indeed, one of the most important issues in this debate about this proposal is: where did it really come from, what is the motion, and is it again another discovery for the Rally? We did discover, of course, that Mr Moore and Mr Whalan met on 8 May 1989 to decide issues that were not brought to the Rally's attention, a secret meeting held by Mr Moore and Mr Whalan before this Assembly was convoked. Those are the issues of credibility that arise out of who is the originator of this motion.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I again draw your attention to standing orders 55 and 202 and point out that this speaker has deliberately not followed the direction of the Chair. However, I take Mr Whalan's point. Since the person speaking has been not well and since we obviously work so closely together, I could perhaps forgive him under those circumstances.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for that forgiveness, Mr Moore.
Mr Kaine: I seek leave to move that this matter be set down for cognate debate with the Chief Minister's proposals for planning when she brings them forward.
Leave not granted.
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.05): I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving that the debate be adjourned and the resumption of the debate being set down for a cognate debate with the Government's proposals for planning, when brought forward by the Chief Minister.
I have some sympathy for the view expressed by Mr Collaery, that there is a major proposal for reorganisation and restructuring of the planning system of this city long overdue and currently open for public debate. Presumably, as an integral part of those planning processes, when the Chief Minister brings forward her draft legislation on the
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