Page 5018 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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Mr Jensen: Mistakes, Michael.
Mr Moore: Look, it is complex legislation that I am dealing with here. You just want to push through what you have. You do not want to consider it, because you know that you have blown it. You have slapped it together and you are going to go on like this.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker: what are we debating at the moment?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I point out to you that at the end of the debate you can raise it as a point of reconsideration; so we do not need to do it now.
Clause 16
MR MOORE (11.05): Mr Deputy Speaker, clause 16 deals with the revision, deferral or withdrawal of the draft plan, and it states that, after the expiration of the period specified in the notice, the authority may revise the draft plan or, by notice published in the Gazette, defer until a specified date. It says "by notice published in the Gazette". In fact, considering that there are no appeals, this does allow a back door way of getting around normal public consultation. So it would appear appropriate for the notice not only to be published in the Gazette but also to be published in the daily newspaper that reaches the most number of people in the ACT, and in this particular instance - - -
Mr Duby: The Tuggeranong Valley View.
MR MOORE: Unfortunately, Mr Duby interjects, "The Tuggeranong Valley View". Whilst we recognise that as a quality newspaper - - -
Mr Collaery: For what purpose?
MR MOORE: Those of us who do not live in the valley recognise that as a quality newspaper for the valley. Mr Duby, we also recognise that it actually is not a daily newspaper at this stage.
We are looking for a notice published in the Gazette. I think that should also be broadly published, and I would suggest that the Canberra Times ought to be the appropriate spot to do that. Also, clause 16(1)(b) states:
... published in the Gazette defer until a specified date, or until the occurrence of a specified event, the submission of the draft Plan to the Executive.
When we look at the definition of "draft Plan", we see that it means a draft plan notified under clause 13 as revised under clause 16(1). If I remember correctly, that would
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