Page 5869 - Week 18 - Wednesday, 11 December 1991
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As Mr Kaine pointed out in responding to the point of order raised by Mr Collaery, there are grave doubts existing in some members' minds as to exactly what the Residents Rally wants to achieve with this particular process.
Mr Jensen: They want a proper process to take place, a proper inquiry.
MR DUBY: They want a proper process, I hear from Mr Jensen. Of course, the implication of that is that a proper process has not been followed. Nothing could be further from the truth.
MR SPEAKER: Order! There are members in the gallery making too much noise. If you wish to debate things, please go outside the public chamber.
MR DUBY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The fact remains that Mr Collaery's motion last Thursday, rejecting one half of this proposal, in effect left the whole proposal, the whole development proposal, in limbo.
Mr Collaery: And what is your interest?
MR DUBY: My interest is in seeing development work proceed, and proceed throughout the Territory in a number of ways. Mr Speaker, this is a $3m redevelopment proposal. The objections that have been raised by various people - - -
Mr Jensen: Just because it is worth $3m does not make it right.
MR DUBY: It would not matter whether it was for $30m or it was a $300,000 proposal, Mr Jensen. The objections that have been raised by various people have focused on all the issues relating to the redevelopment. They have been rightfully and properly examined and, under the process that exists by law, the objections have been counter-argued, and it has been decided that the proposed development can go ahead. For people like Mr Jensen to say that therefore it is still a wrong development simply does not add up.
Mr Jensen: I never said that. I said that it does not make it right because it is worth $3m.
MR DUBY: Mr Jensen is again mumbling from my rear.
Mr Wood: It does not make it wrong, either.
MR DUBY: Precisely, it does not make it wrong whatsoever. Mr Speaker, this is a matter that has been around for some time. I think it quite right and proper that the Assembly should deal with the issue one way or the other. The major proponents of the proposal have been involved for, as I
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