Page 4603 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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wonderful new initiative that was dreamt up and introduced consequent upon their accession to government. It clearly was the logical development from the proposals that had been released under the previous Government which itself - this was made clear when the discussion papers were released by the then Labor Government - was built from the Mant proposals.
But, Mr Deputy Speaker, apart from that brief flurry of activity earlier this year when we had the legislation put on the table, nothing further seems to have happened. We have reached the position - and no-one has denied that this is indeed the position - that it will be the middle of next year at the earliest before this legislation to tidy up planning and leasehold matters is introduced. Mr Deputy Speaker, on that ground alone, it is abundantly clear that Mr Moore's case is made out. There has been a dramatic failure of this Government, a Government that took office with such high expectations that Mr Collaery took the alleged failure of the Labor Government to have this scheme in place within six months as his cornerstone for attacking it in his bid for power. Yet, we now learn, it will be another six months, 18 months in toto of Alliance maladministration, before we see this package, if we get to see this package by mid year 1991. But, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would advise you not to hold your breath because I suspect that there will be further delays and further prevarication.
As well as this principal failure to develop the legislation there are also numerous instances that I could cite in relation to simply poor administration. I take the Assembly back again to the stated policy of the Residents Rally at the time of the last election where they refer to the proposal to provide a leasehold administrator. They said quite specifically:
The Leasehold Administrator will be required to take a more active role against breaches of Lease Purpose Clauses.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I am regularly being confronted by constituents who are having problems with the lease purpose clause provisions in their lease or in other person's leases, and it seems that there is a worrying degree of inconsistency. In one instance a small business person, who has invested heavily in establishing a business that complies with all planning and development guidelines and has borrowed heavily in order to do that, is confronted with a competitor who is fragrantly and admittedly in breach of the lease purpose clause. Yet over three years that business person has been unable to get action taken against that person in breach of the lease purpose clause. That matter is still continuing and I will keep harrowing away at it. It is a matter that demands attention from this Government because the person who is trying to do the right thing in conducting a business in accordance with the lease purpose clause should not be discriminated against.
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