Page 4642 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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community input into the Territory Plan that was released in draft form recently. I also did not see Mrs Grassby at any of the seminars being run by the NCDC before self-government. However, I did see my colleagues Mr Collaery and Mr Moore at those meetings. It could also be said that the degree of support for the ALP's so-called interest in planning matters is typified by the poor response they received to a letter to the residents of Forrest. The Rally had a much more receptive response to our concerns about that issue. I rest my case.
It is also unfortunate that it is necessary for me to comment briefly at this stage on some comments made by Mr Connolly. Mr Connolly is starting to develop the art of telling part of the story and conveniently forgetting to include the rest - selective quoting, I think it is called. For example, during the debate recently Mr Connolly forgot to mention that it was the commitment of the Rally to the needs and interests of the community, particularly when it comes to their suburban open space, that enables him to sit opposite us here today, drawing a nice salary as a Minister and seeking to bask in the glory of the hard work put in by my colleague Mr Collaery.
Mr Connolly: Mr Kaine sacked you. You did not resign; Mr Kaine sacked you.
MR JENSEN: Mr Connolly, you have to ask why you are sitting across there. Mr Connolly also made much of some comments by the Rally, at the time of the first change of government, about the failure of the first Follett Government to bring forward planning legislation. Let me remind Mr Connolly, who as we all know was not present in the house at the time and still has to get his tick from the voters, that the best the Follett Government could do under Ms Follett's ministership of this portfolio area, with the assistance of a member of the ALP as a fully paid consultant, was an incomplete set of drafting instructions that had to be refined and turned into a very comprehensive package of legislation by the Alliance Government.
This work, of course, was done by a group of hard-working ACT public servants in the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning and the Parliamentary Counsel's Office. I would like at this stage to thank publicly those officials for the work they did on this legislation during the period of the Alliance Government. I think it is a credit to the officers involved that we got as far as we did.
Once again, Mr Connolly, you had it easy, as all the hard yards had been achieved before the change of government. At least Mr Wood was not as churlish as his leader over the discrimination legislation in saying that the Bill was all his own work. One would have to ask why it took so long for the new Government to cast an eye over the legislation prepared under Alliance Government direction, including some of the very good recommendations made by my colleague
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