Page 2800 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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transport use. In addition, the Territory Plan will reserve a right of way for an inter-town public transport route.
Managing the greenhouse effect may be one of the greatest challenges that governments in the next century will face and it is important - even imperative - that a long term and bipartisan view is taken. I hope that the Opposition in this Assembly will accept that and join with the Government in making sure that the proper measures are taken.
I was going to make, at this point, some comments about some of the contributions that the members opposite have made to the debate, but unfortunately they have been so few that I can only comment on a couple of matters raised by Mr Wood.
Mr Berry: Well, we do not want to make more greenhouse gases. You just seem to want to make greenhouse gases, you lot over there - just making up time.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry!
MR KAINE: I can only comment on a couple of points made by Mr Wood who, I repeat, was the only member of the Labor Opposition who made any contribution to the debate at all. One of the comments that he made was that in our greenhouse strategy the Government could have been less cautious.
Mr Berry: He is our spokesperson, is he not?
MR KAINE: Well, I accept that. The paper that we put out was a discussion paper and, as I say, we have had a good deal of input from the community, and Mr Wood's exhortation to the Government to be a little less cautious is perhaps not an inappropriate one. He suggested, for example, that we should require thermal insulation in new buildings - instead of encouraging things, we should require them. I accept that. To some degree that coincides with some inputs that we have had from the community and, in implementing our policy on this matter, we will take Mr Wood's exhortations into account.
He also asked that, in planning Gungahlin - which will be the next major development for residential land - we do not plan it for the car; that we perhaps plan for a light rail system instead. Well, his thinking exactly coincides with mine. (Extension of time granted)
Mr Wood's thinking on that matter exactly coincides with mine. In fact, I am on record as far back as 1976-77 advocating even then the reservation of right of way facilities for a future light rail system of some kind. If members go back to the Hansard of the old Assembly they will find my comment that if we did not do something about it soon - and I am talking about 13 or 14 years ago - the only right of way left would be between Queanbeyan and
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