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than wasting our time. If my amendment is carried, it will allow Mr Collaery's amendment, as amended, to vacate Friday, and it will allow people to sort out a sensible day for a sitting.
Amendment (Mr Connolly's) agreed to.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I withdraw my amendment.
MR SPEAKER: You withdraw your amendment?
Mr Collaery: Yes. I seek leave to withdraw it.
Mr Kaine: You can't, because we have just amended it.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, have your vote.
Amendment (Mr Collaery's), as amended, agreed to.
Motion (Mr Berry's), as amended, agreed to.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variation to Territory Plan
MR KAINE (8.24): Mr Speaker, I present report No. 9 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure, which deals with the draft variation to the Territory Plan, Forrest section 12, block 1, known as the Canberra Bowling Club, together with a copy of the relevant minutes of proceedings, and I move:
That the report be noted.
Mr Speaker, this report has come from what, of necessity, had to be a very hurried inquiry by the Planning Committee into a reference which it took upon itself, given that considerable public concern was being expressed about the process by which a variation to the lease purpose for this block of land was agreed to by the Government.
I would point out, of course, that the committee has no statutory responsibility in this connection. It took the hearing on of its own volition because it felt that members of the public should have one more opportunity to put their view on this matter. It was most regrettable that, in the time scale that was available to us, it had to be a hurried inquiry. It was not possible, regrettably, to hear everybody who would have liked to put a point of view to the committee, and it was pretty obvious that there were a lot of people out there who believed that the consultation process that the Territory Planning Authority and the Government had gone through in order to reach a decision on this matter was inadequate and inappropriate.
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