Page 2167 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 6 June 1990
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Mr Moore: That is a lie.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I ask you to withdraw that, please, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: I will make a personal explanation shortly, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: You will withdraw that first.
Mr Moore: I will withdraw it in the meantime.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, there are no qualifications that can be put on that. There was a clear endorsement, a clear understanding from the word go - and I hope I am excused by this comment - that public service occupancy of buildings is denser than that of commercial occupancy. A number of reasons were discussed that mean that there has been no desertion of any policies on this issue, none whatsoever. For those of you who are familiar with the transcript of the select committee hearing, I refer you to Tony Fleming's statement. It is clearly in the transcript that there were no objections to the design and siting of the building.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented.
Mr Humphries: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, Mr Humphries. Would you make your personal explanation at the end of the debate, please, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I refer to standing order 141. I consider that the amendment moved by Mr Collaery is inconsistent with the - - -
MR SPEAKER: You are speaking of standing order 141; wait till I pick that up.
Mr Moore: I withdraw that, Mr Speaker.
Mr Humphries: My point of order has been covered, Mr Speaker.
MR JENSEN (12.25): I see we have only a short period of time, so I will try to be as brief as possible. One of the first things that I want to do in this debate this morning is to put to rest very quickly one of the points raised by Mr Moore in his speech. I am not quite sure whether it was a deliberate attempt by him to tell only part of the story, but Mr Moore said that the land use purpose out of the Civic Centre Policy Plan dated January 1989 is for car parks. However, Mr Speaker, Mr Moore clearly did not read further down that particular page because other land uses are permitted. I refer to page 70 of that document. I will go right down to the bottom where it says "cultural facility; social, community facility". That is exactly the
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