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flowing from all of those things. To comply with Mr Moore's proposal would be to ignore everything that has been and is being done on the matter of planning in the ACT. It would put everything on hold for another two years while nothing happens. There is simply no need whatsoever for a moratorium of the kind that Mr Moore is proposing. Unlike Mr Moore, we the Government must make decisions rather than hide behind further inquiries and we will do just that.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (4.42): Mr Speaker, I have got some points to make and I am very pleased to have the opportunity. Firstly, Mr Moore stood up and quoted additional comments that I made as chairman of the select committee of this Assembly that looked into the redevelopment of the Canberra Times site. He quoted specifically from some preconditions that I indicated and he quoted specifically from the unanimous view of the Assembly that there would have to be further work done before there could be any further development.
Although he is content today to make those quotations, he did not do me justice in relation to the Canberra Times on 5 November 1989. In a letter signed by Mr Moore, he said:
The former Canberra Times site -
this is last November, and I ask members whether it has proceeded -
has now been given the go-ahead for development by the Assembly's Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee without a murmur of dissent from the chairman of the committee and Rally leader, Bernard Collaery.
I further refer the house to statements Mr Moore made which were reported in the Canberra Times of 2 November 1989 when he said that the committee's report had told the ACT Government exactly what it wanted to hear. Members will recall that he was admonished for that statement by this Assembly.
Mr Moore: I was not. I object, Mr Speaker, on a point of order. I certainly was not admonished; there was no admonishment of any imputations in that statement - not me at all. Mr Collaery knows that, and he put that same idea across to WIN News.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I would suggest that if the member feels that he has been misrepresented, he can take the appropriate course after the debate is concluded.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I use the term admonish in the normally accepted dictionary meaning. This Assembly clearly, unanimously from my recollection - perhaps with an abstention or an absence - found Mr Moore's statements
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