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speak to each one of them and take the time of the Assembly, particularly as we approach later this evening. Mr Deputy Speaker, you would be aware that there will be quite a large number of clauses there that I intend to speak to, and to raise these issues.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:
Page 6, paragraphs 13(1)(a) and (b), lines 3 and 6, omit "21", substitute "45".
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (10.44): I oppose this amendment. My reason for opposing it is quite straightforward. It just so happens that this is exactly the same provision that exists in the draft planning Bill, which has been out for public consultation since February 1990. Mr Moore cannot claim that this is something that has been sprung on him at the last moment. He has never before raised it. We are talking, in fact, of a period of not less than 21 days, which can be any period at all of not less than 21 days. I submit that Mr Moore is just playing a game of some kind and could not possibly be taken seriously.
MR MOORE (10.45): Once again, I am appalled by the attitude of the Chief Minister. I think it is time he started to be open-minded. He did not write to me, in the first place, to offer a briefing from his department on this particular Bill.
Mr Kaine: You asked for one and you were granted it.
MR MOORE: Chief Minister, had you been in here when I spoke at the principle stage, you would have noted that I said that I appreciated that, and at very short notice. However, I expect you to write to me, in the initial instance, and offer those sorts of things.
Mr Kaine: You will wait for a long time.
MR MOORE: I will be waiting for a long time. You can expect, Chief Minister, to find yourself in the sort of situation where you get mucked up like you did last Thursday week because you refused to take into account the fact that there are more people in here than just the Alliance and the Labor Party.
It seems to me that the substantive legislation that the Chief Minister refers to does not deal, of course, with the Territory Plan. It deals with variations, and so forth, to the plan. We are dealing here, quite specifically, with the notion, amongst other things, of preparing the plan. That is why I have suggested a 45-day period. That is a quite appropriate way to go. I think it gives a reasonable access. To expect people to respond in 21 days to a coherent strategy of a plan is absolute nonsense.
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