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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been inadvertently misrepresented and I seek leave to make a short statement under standing order 46.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR COLLAERY: Thank you. In his ministerial statement relating to the tabling of variations of the Territory Plan the Minister, Mr Bill Wood, indicated in the statement which had been prepared for him that the Alliance had approved a variety of planning variations. I wish to place on the record that elements of the then Alliance Government, which was fast crashing at that time, approved these variations. The variation approvals were not submitted to Cabinet; they were not approved by me as a Minister or a member of the Government. I believe that that should be on the record.
Mr Wood: Mr Speaker, I am quite prepared to accept that. It certainly was the cause of a great deal of row.
AUDITOR-GENERAL - REPORT NO. 5 OF 1991
Efficiency Audit - ACT Housing Trust Programs
Debate resumed from 21 June 1991, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.26): I will tailor my comments to the remaining time before the adjournment debate or the automatic adjournment. I moved that the debate on this paper be adjourned, because it is one of those reports which deal with off-budget matters. If the Assembly does not pick up matters like the Auditor-General's report and other documents that raise matters of this kind, then there simply is no scrutiny of the activities of operations like the Housing Trust.
Of course, the Public Accounts Committee will consider taking this on as a reference for review and the like, but there are matters that arise from such a report that I think ought to be mentioned in the Assembly. I would have thought that all members would be interested in reviewing such an Auditor-General's report, and reviewing its subject matter.
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