Page 2601 - Week 09 - Thursday, 8 August 1991
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MS FOLLETT: I have no knowledge whatsoever of the alleged incident to which Mr Humphries refers. If it is the wish of the Assembly, I could defer to Mr Berry on this matter.
MR BERRY: Ms Carnell, in her role as a Board of Health member, was despatched to do a Board of Health job, I suspect before government came into our hands. It is very interesting that the former Leader of the Opposition has risen to the defence of a Liberal candidate who I think is further up the ticket than he is. Perhaps there might be some changes, but that is another issue. My position on these issues is that nobody is entitled to use their position in government bodies for political advantage.
Mr Humphries: She was not doing that. She was doing her job as a member of the Board of Health.
MR BERRY: Hang on a minute. You chopped me off there, Gary. Give me a go; be patient. Nobody is entitled to do that, and in my view it was important to ensure that Ms Carnell was not in any way embarrassed.
Mr Humphries: She was embarrassed, all right, by your activity.
MR BERRY: That might have been. I do not know why she would have been embarrassed, because my view was that she ought not to be put in an embarrassing situation where she, as a candidate, would be introducing a person whom she would be opposing and commenting on, I suspect, in the next election. So, I chose the safe path and suggested - I cannot recall whether it was to the acting chief executive or the chairman of the Board of Health - that she should not be there, that it would make a lot of sense if she were not there. She apparently acquiesced in that view.
Planning Legislation and Territory Plan
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I remind him of calls by his colleagues Mr Connolly and Ms Follett, when they were in opposition, for the Alliance Government to present the planning legislation. The Government has had some two months to consider the legislation and the draft Territory Plan, which I understand was almost ready for presentation to the community. In fact, the legislation was due to be presented the week of the motion of no confidence. I wonder whether the Minister could advise the Assembly and the Canberra community, firstly, when we can expect to see the planning legislation package; and, secondly, when the community can expect to see the draft Territory Plan.
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