Page 415 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 2 March 1994
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In concluding, Mr Deputy Speaker, I think this is a classic situation. All people want is to be informed truthfully as to what is going to occur. Let us not try to put one over anybody, and let us stop anybody else attempting to put one over anybody else. As I said, I am very concerned that some of these ads went on and on over a period of two years, plus facsimile messages from companies. I think that, once and for all, the people in the ACT should realise that no suburb should be exempt from the salt-and-pepper situation of having a mixture of housing. I believe that that is the only fair way to go. That being understood, I think it should be made loud and clear to any developers and any real estate agents that it will be taken as a very serious thing indeed by this Assembly and other places, I am suggesting, if there is any attempt to dupe any person into believing that any suburb is not going to have public housing. I look forward to what the DPP has to say. I am sure that the people in Gordon are delighted that something is being done. I hope that everything is resolved amicably.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: The discussion is concluded.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Feral Animals and Invasive Plants
MR MOORE (3.44): I present the report of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment on feral animals and invasive plants in the ACT, together with extracts from the minutes of proceedings, and I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, this has been one of the most interesting investigations that I have been party to in the Legislative Assembly committee process. We clearly have before us an opportunity to take action which will have ramifications long into the future. One thing that fills me and, I imagine, other members of the committee with some pride is the process by which we have come to this report on feral animals and invasive plants in the ACT - that is, the calling of public submissions and then the development of a discussion paper on the issue which in turn evoked a series of responses that have been taken into account in our report.
The report, Madam Speaker, has a series of recommendations which I will take the opportunity to outline now. The recommendations include the notion of a general public information campaign so that the community is aware of the implications for the Canberra Nature Park and other natural areas, and for native flora and fauna, of the problems associated with the dumping of garden waste and other refuse in other than approved areas. It seems to us, Madam Speaker, that the community needs to be made aware of these problems and that adequate provision needs to be made so that the refuse can be dumped in an environmentally sound and safe way in appropriate areas that are convenient.
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