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I also welcome his commitment to engage in consultation, both with bodies such as the Australian Institute of Criminology, which has an emerging interest in areas that touch on coronial matters, and with the community generally, particularly groups like the National Association for Loss and Grief which worked with the committee to produce this report. Those sorts of inputs are valuable in making the legislation relevant to the needs of people who, from time to time, have the misfortune to have to have contact with it.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

POSTPONEMENT OF ORDER OF THE DAY

Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to:

That order of the day No. 2, Assembly business, be postponed until the next day of sitting.

CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -

STANDING COMMITTEE

Report on Feral Animals and Invasive Plants

Debate resumed from 25 August 1994, on motion by Mr Moore:

That the report be noted.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

TOURISM AND A.C.T. PROMOTION - STANDING COMMITTEE

Report on an International Airport in the ACT

Debate resumed from 15 September 1994, on motion by Mr Westende:

That the report be noted.

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.49): Madam Speaker, the Government welcomes the inquiry into the tourism benefits of an international airport in Canberra. The report of the inquiry acknowledges the importance of the airport and the question of international access by tourists and business to the national capital. Future development of Canberra Airport is very important, given the implications for planning, land management and infrastructure provision.

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