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MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Berry repeats his assertion. I say again that the Alliance Government acted on every single one of those recommendations. The Labor Opposition at the time did not ask a single question, throughout the life of the Alliance Government, until the budget problems of 1991 emerged and budget initiatives were taken in response to their budget blow-out. The fact of life, Mr Speaker, is that Mr Berry was surprised by the budget blow-out, as I was.
LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) BILL 1991
Detail Stage
Clause 23
Consideration resumed.
MR MOORE (4.06): Mr Speaker, to bring members' minds back to the clause, I remind them that it deals with defined land. Earlier in the debate on this issue, we heard the Leader of the Opposition talking about little gnomes running around providing Mr Jensen with assistance on planning amendments. I suppose that I also had in my mind a picture of the little trolls that support the Liberal Party, but perhaps we should leave that without any further ado.
Mr Kaine: I do not have any backroom boys of that kind.
MR MOORE: Mr Kaine interjects that he does not have any backroom boys, and I do not think it was intended to be a sexist remark. I think it was meant to be as it is, on face value. I have no comment about your backroom women.
Mr Speaker, getting to the issue at hand, I think that one of the most interesting interjections in the earlier debate was an interjection by Mr Kaine when he said, in mirth, "Well, that is all right. We will make Civic defined land". I do not want that to be misconstrued, because it was said as a joke. I am not attempting to misconstrue that. The trouble is that in that piece of mirth there is a high element of truth. There is the power to do just that thing.
Our Planning Authority is not going to do that. There is no doubt in my mind that our Planning Authority would not go ahead and do something along those lines. But I think it is important, when we are dealing with legislation, that we consider whether or not we actually wish to give that power that could be applied to Civic or to greenfields development. It is most appropriate for us to decide whether or not to allow this concept of defined land which takes away appeals and takes from the Canberra community the opportunity to comment.
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