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Thursday, 24 October 1991
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MR SPEAKER (Mr Prowse) took the chair at 10.30 am and read the prayer.
LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) BILL 1991
[COGNATE MOTION, BILL AND REPORT:
PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
HERITAGE OBJECTS BILL 1991
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSERVATION,
HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT - STANDING COMMITTEES - JOINT
REPORT ON PLANNING LEGISLATION]
Debate resumed from 23 October 1991, on motion by Mr Wood:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR SPEAKER: I remind members that, in debating order of the day No. 1, executive business, they may also address their remarks to order of the day No. 2, executive business; order of the day No. 1, Assembly business; and order of the day No. 19, private members' business.
MR MOORE (10.31): Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to debate this long awaited legislation. I made it quite clear to the Minister that I would refuse to debate this legislation until I had a copy of the draft Territory Plan as, as I read it, the two are inextricably linked and, without having one, it is impossible to understand what might be achieved by the other. The Minister was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the Territory Plan, the written statement - I understand that it was provided to other members as well - at 9 o'clock this morning.
I have had the opportunity now to read through a nearly 400-page document and compare that with legislation that has 286 clauses, so I can continue the debate.
Mr Collaery: It sort of goes with the 301 votes you got.
MR MOORE: Mr Collaery interjects that it goes well with the 301 votes I got. I am not embarrassed about it at all, but at least at the next election I will not be handing my votes across to Mr Collaery, as I did at the last one. Like so many other people in Canberra, Mr Speaker, I will not be put in a position where I will be sold out by Mr Collaery and the Residents Rally again, because they are a cause of the past.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Relevance, members!
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