Page 2634 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 August 1991
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PETITION
The Clerk: The following petition has been lodged for presentation, and a copy will be referred to the appropriate Minister:
Police Offences Legislation
To the Honourable Speaker, the Chief Minister and members of the Legislative Assembly. The petition of the undersigned citizens of the ACT respectfully showeth that:
the Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1989 (hereafter referred to as the 'move-on powers') has proven a resounding success and a useful aid to Canberra Police in curbing street crime.
Now, therefore, your petitioners request the ACT Legislative Assembly to pass the Police Offences (Amendment) Act 1991 to enable the move-on powers to continue in the interest of the safety of the ACT community.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
By Mr Stefaniak (from 128 residents).
Petition received.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Casino Project
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I would like to direct a question to the Chief Minister. I go back two years, to when the Labor Party was very strong on putting a casino on section 19. Yet public statements made by the Labor Party in recent times indicate that section 19 has been totally abandoned as a possible site for the casino. I ask the Chief Minister: What community consultation has taken place; or, if there has been no community consultation, what has happened behind the scenes that would justify the Labor Party departing from its position on section 19 as a preferred site for the casino? If that position can be justified, given the present planning restrictions, what else does the Labor Party see as a possible or potential site for a casino?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Kaine for the question, Mr Speaker. To answer briefly on what has changed, of course we lost government in 1989, as Mr Kaine should well know. The subsequent negotiations over the establishment of a casino
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