Page 5628 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.57): Mr Deputy Speaker, I would draw the Assembly's attention to the broad agreements that I understand have been reached on the timetable today to do this. I am trying to be as quick as I can about things.
Mr Moore: I have not agreed to a timetable. I have said that I will sit as late as you want, to finish it.
MR WOOD: Well, let me tell you this: If this legislation does not go through today it will not go through. The arrangements that must follow from this will preclude consideration next week. We have to get the consequentials done. Today, at some stage, is the deadline. If you want to sit through to 12 o'clock or 1.30, that has to be.
Mr Jensen: Give us your reason, Bill.
MR WOOD: The reason, quite simply, is that the way you have worded it means that it includes all leases, including residential leases. It is a sign that things have been done too quickly, and we cannot sustain that.
MR COLLAERY (11.58): Mr Deputy Speaker, if the Government wants increased accountability to it by its bureaucrats, can the Minister assure - - -
Mr Berry: One speaker per party.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask you to rein in Mr Berry. He interrupts all of us. He objects to our speaking in this house.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, when he gets out of hand I will rein him in.
MR COLLAERY: Well, he is constantly carping. He wants no debate in this house. He wants to run it like some kangaroo court. The more he interjects, the more we will talk. I will have a policy of saying 50 more words every time Mr Berry interjects and blocks us.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, just stick to the point.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Deputy Speaker, the subdivision approvals that can be done as special subdivisions should be known to government. They should be known to the Ministers. What we are trying to get, following the leasehold administration of this capital during the early 1980s, is increased accountability by the decision-makers in the administration to government. This will aid Mr Wood because this would have to come forward to his notice when these decisions are made down in the back rooms of government. That is the simple basic philosophy behind it. I think the other reasons were adequately ventilated.
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