Page 1424 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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At Mugga Lane or Belconnen there is no conviviality with the officials - you just get out of THERE as quick as possible to avoid being squashed by the Bulldozer.
Mr Duby: When was the last time you went to the Belconnen tip?
MR MOORE: I have been to the Belconnen tip quite often, Mr Duby. I am aware that the dropping of rubble at the Ainslie Transfer Station was inappropriate so, when my house was being built, I took the rubble to Belconnen tip and sometimes to Mugga Lane. I am aware of those tips; I am aware of their differences. If you had been aware, you also would have understood that.
Mr Duby: A lot of other commercial users did not. They were happy to go and dump it into hoppers at Ainslie.
MR MOORE: The point about it, Mr Duby, is that you did not consult with anybody. You do not have a clue about consultation. You have been attempting to shout me down, but you will need a bigger voice than that. The public consultation process is the most important factor and that is what people are angry about. If you can prove to people of north Canberra that there is a considerable cost benefit - if you do a cost-benefit analysis and can show them that - they might be able to see their way clear to allow it to happen and not to object in the way they are objecting.
There is a petition today with more than a thousand signatures, but that is simply the tip of the iceberg as to the strength of people's feelings on the matter. The feeling is about the fact that you have taken a high-handed decision that is probably a bad one and you probably cannot find the appropriate evidence to support it. You have made no attempt to look into it and you have made no attempt to look at the environmental impacts of that. Mr Wood has referred to them and so has Ms Follett, so there is absolutely no point in my going back over them. The most important thing is the cost-benefit analysis.
While we are on this debate I will add that a statement made by Dr Kinloch at question time today was incorrect. He has misled the Assembly, and I am prepared to take further action on that.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I would suggest that Mr Moore is about to get onto very dangerous ground.
MR MOORE: Name the standing order.
Mr Jensen: It is 241, Mr Speaker. I believe Mr Moore is just about to get onto very dangerous ground in relation to matters before an Assembly committee prior to a report being brought down.
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