Page 6254 - Week 19 - Tuesday, 17 December 1991
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I would like to thank you for your draft proposals on the Building Better Cities strategy. As you will appreciate the strategy is still at a very early stage and any funding must be considered by the Government in the budget context.
So, you can see that the approach was clearly made. The fact that the ACT has not yet gained funding does not indicate that the ACT will lose out or will not get its fair share. Rather, it reflects the Commonwealth's urgent need to reach agreements with the major States where the greatest needs for better city initiatives are seen. It is only after the States and the most urgent urban problems have been addressed that the Commonwealth will be likely to justify allocating money to the ACT. However, the guarantee about per capita funding still exists.
Details of the ACT proposals were discussed with the NCPA and staff of the Deputy Prime Minister over two months ago. A formal submission was forwarded to the Prime Minister at the end of November and an advance copy was sent to the NCPA at about the same time as the Victorian proposals were submitted, so there was no lateness in submission.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
MR COLLAERY: I seek leave to have private members' business order of the day No. 19 called on.
Leave not granted.
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
MR COLLAERY (6.30): Mr Speaker, I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent the Payroll Tax (Amendment) Bill 1991 being called on forthwith.
I seek to have this issue considered at the very least at this stage, considering the long parliamentary break and the issues affecting payroll tax. The Chief Minister, as Treasurer, has competent advice. She may well advise the house alternatively in relation to the Bill. I believe that it behoves the house to at least consider this Bill and to consider it quickly. The issues have been well ventilated.
Mr Connolly: We have just seen what happens with one of your quick Bills.
MR COLLAERY: You are very churlish today, Terry. You have had the same problems with a lot of your Bills.
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