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Bungendore because we would have built on all the rest of it. I said this then and unfortunately very little has been done since. If the Government does not start to plan for a right of way for some sort of transportation system to replace buses and cars, we will indeed find that the only right of way left will run between Queanbeyan and Bungendore.
So I accept Mr Wood's comments and I take them in the spirit in which they were offered. I can only say that I regret that the other members of the Labor Opposition did not see fit to make a contribution to the debate of the same standard as that of Mr Wood.
As we said in our environment strategy issued in June, we will be continually reviewing, evaluating and updating all aspects of our environment programs to ensure that the complex interrelationships will continue to be comprehensively managed. That is an undertaking and a commitment that I give on the part of the Government. We have a comprehensive policy now on the greenhouse effect. We have a very comprehensive strategy on protecting the environment - again, one of the few issued by a government in Australia.
It is the intention of this Government to do whatever we can at our level to preserve and protect our environment and, particularly, to address the greenhouse effect and the depletion of the ozone layer.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
RESEARCH AT THE ROYAL CANBERRA AND WODEN VALLEY HOSPITALS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Ministerial Statement and Papers
Debate resumed from 1 May 1990, on motion by Mr Humphries:
That the Assembly takes note of the following papers:
Review of research at the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley Hospitals and the potential for a university hospital -
Ministerial statement, 1 May 1990;
Review by Interim Board of Directors, dated February 1990.
MR BERRY (8.36): There will be only one Labor Opposition speaker on this matter as well because we do not see the need to take up the time of the Assembly with tedious and repetitious speeches. This issue of research at the Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals and the potential for a university hospital has some irony, even in the title, because, after this Government has finished with the health system, there will be no Royal Canberra Hospital, because it intends to close it.
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