Page 4512 - Week 15 - Thursday, 22 November 1990
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error when recently changing my New South Wales licence over to an ACT licence. I now realise that I was born in 1966, as it states on my licence.
You can imagine my concern when I heard that I had lost 20 years of my life. Someone pretending to be from the Motor Registry contacted me and said that a mistake had been made. Of course, I realised it was not someone from the Motor Registry because they do not make mistakes. I found this out when I wrote the various propositions to them regarding my recent registration cancellation without my knowing about it, although I have a PO box that I always use. I suppose I have to accept that, if I am 24, I am 24. There was some suggestion that I get another licence. Recently I told my mum that she was 20 years younger than she thought she was, and she said, "That is great". She is going to have a party. If anyone thinks I am going to upset my mum, they have another think coming.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (3.53): Mr Speaker, that was certainly an interesting debate. I must admit that it was a very hard matter of public importance to prepare for and on which to get all the facts together. The wording of Mr Stevenson's MPI states:
There are certain practices and regulations to do with operating a motor vehicle in the ACT which do not benefit the community and place motorists in a disadvantaged and unfair position.
I know that MPIs are usually matters of public importance. I have a funny feeling that this is a matter of private importance for Mr Stevenson.
Mr Stevenson: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: how on earth could Mr Duby say such a thing? I am sure that he would not do any such thing. It would be the last thing you would do as a matter of private importance.
MR DUBY: I imagine that losing 20 years of growth rings would have been a matter of private importance to me, anyway. Mr Stevenson, to start with, has raised a number of issues about, for example, parking restrictions. He has mentioned that there are some loading zones which operate on a 24-hour basis. That, certainly, is true. Loading zones on a 24-hour basis are provided for lessees and people who wish to operate a business from that area. Generally they are provided on that basis because it has been done at the request of the people who operate businesses in that area. Nevertheless, 24-hour zones are provided at the request of lessees for delivery of goods, et cetera, and for carting of goods required for sale. They are usually required for places providing services at that time of night. The 24-hour zones also allow operators to park closer to their premises, perhaps, early in the morning to get ready for early morning trade.
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