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Mr Speaker, through which the Territory plan would progress for acceptance of that plan by this house of assembly.
I noticed also that during his speech and his interjections across the table, Mr Moore referred to the fact that the Chief Minister takes everything from the Metropolitan Policy Plan 1984. In some respects the Metropolitan Plan 1984, as it relates to the development of Civic has been superseded by the Civic Centre Policy Plan of 1986. That 1984 plan is inappropriate for Civic. The Civic Centre Policy Plan has replaced it.
Mr Moore: Come on, Norm, you know better than that. It did not replace it.
MR JENSEN: It did; in exactly the same way as what is included in the document that has been put out by the National Capital Planning Authority with its comments in relation to the development of Civic will also, in some respects, supersede previous policies that have been taken. Therefore, for Mr Moore to say that he only takes his ideas from the Metropolitan Policy Plan is just drawing a very long bow. I think he has to look a little bit further.
Mr Speaker, I wish to raise one other point in rebutting the comments made by Mr Moore. The Chief Minister does not have power to delay an application under section 11A of the City Area Leases Ordinance.
Mr Moore: He certainly does.
MR JENSEN: No, he does not.
Mr Moore: He vetoes it and then lets him put in the application again.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR JENSEN: He either issues a certificate to say that an application is not consistent with the National Capital Plan or the Territory plan or an NCDC policy plan, or he does not. That is not necessarily a vetoing of that particular certificate or that plan. So the recent tabling of draft planning legislation, as my colleague the Chief Minister has already indicated, clearly shows the commitment on the part of this Government to the public consultation process which would be involved in Mr Moore's inquiry. The legislation will require the development of a plan not only for Civic but for the whole of the Territory which takes into account the planning, social, environmental, economic and infrastructure issues.
This legislation provides in the ultimate for the plan to be tabled in the Assembly to be subject to scrutiny by the members. This is legislation which, I reiterate, was not brought forward by the previous Government. Mr Moore knows that full well and he knows that we argued long and hard for the Government to do that. It is a pity that during
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