Page 1522 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 18 May 1993
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Your whole proposition, as I understand it from what you have said this afternoon, revolves around paragraph (3) of your motion. This is what you really want to get to. You want to have an inquiry which "assesses whether or not all potential developers in section 22, Braddon had a level playing field and recommends how to deal with balancing developers' initiatives with the best interests of the community". What you basically want, Mr Moore, is a review of the leasing system in the ACT. That, basically, is what that is all about. That, basically, is the only thing that you can do to have a proper review of that particular point. If that is what you want to do, put it on the table, and flesh it out so that this Assembly can have a look at it. One would have presumed that you would have had at least the courtesy, if nothing else, to await the presentation of the report by the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee on the draft variation to the Territory Plan, which covers every single issue in that resolution, bar none. I am not going so far as to suggest that what you are proposing is improper - that is already being considered - but I would suggest that you have not done your credibility one ounce of good this day.
MR DE DOMENICO (4.36): Madam Speaker, I will rise briefly to get involved in this debate. As a member of the PDI Committee I also find it extraordinary that this matter has been brought up in the way it has been brought up today. I think it was Mr Kaine who said, "What a sorry state we would be in if any developer with any ounce of entrepreneurial blood in his veins had to go to his competitors and say, 'Listen, I have a beautiful idea, but in order for it to appear to be all right you can be part of it'.". How ludicrous that would be!
I recall what this Assembly did, Madam Speaker, not too long ago, in fact last Thursday, I think, when another member of this Assembly attempted - we knew about it in advance - to besmirch the name of another person, using this Assembly to do so. Quite reluctantly, might I say, people on this side of the house, who thought that perhaps no member ought to be denied the right to say whatever they wanted to, voted in a certain way, Madam Speaker. Mr Moore has attempted to do or has done a similar thing today, because not only has he named people who have been directly involved in this development, he also has named people who have been indirectly involved and people who have not been involved at all. Mr Lamont said that Mr Moore has named people on the basis that some of us - I also have had a convivial at that place, and will continue to do so - - -
Mr Lamont: I did not invite you there that day, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: No, I know, but it does not matter. We happen from time to time to have a beer with one another. Let me tell Mr Moore, through you, Madam Speaker, that before being elected to this place I, as a lobbyist, even had beers with Mr Lamont, who was doing other things before he was elected here.
Mr Lamont: Yes, but I had to pay for them.
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