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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 4 Hansard (18 April) . . Page.. 1084 ..

Mr Moore: The Parkcare group wrote to you a week ago, or two weeks ago.

MR HUMPHRIES: I am sorry; I have not seen that letter as yet.

Mr Moore: I will show you a copy.

MR HUMPHRIES: Fine. when that letter comes in and when a response arrives, I will be able to answer the question. If Ms Horodny wants an answer to her question today in question time, during questions without notice, about a matter as detailed as that, with respect - - -

Mr Berry: A bulldozer in the bush is pretty detailed!

MR HUMPHRIES: It is pretty detailed, but it is also pretty obscure. More than half of the ACT's total area consists of nature reserve or national park. I am afraid that I do not know the position of all the bulldozers, backhoes, tractors, trucks, et cetera, at any given time or what they are doing in that area. If I deserve a slap across the wrist for not knowing where all the capital equipment is all over the ACT, then I plead guilty; but I have to say that I do not believe that it is my job to know that. If Ms Horodny has a question about what a particular bulldozer was doing on a particular path of the Canberra Nature Park, I am very happy to find out; but I cannot give that answer without taking the question on notice.

MS HORODNY: Could you take on notice also this supplementary question when you are investigating this issue? When will the management plans be available for Canberra Nature Park?

MR SPEAKER: No. I am sorry; I will rule that out of order. That has nothing to do with the original question.

MS HORODNY: It absolutely does have to do with the original question because this bulldozer - - -

MR SPEAKER: You asked a question about a bulldozer in a nature park. You are now asking something about a management plan.

MS HORODNY: It is obvious that this Government has no idea of the connection between these two, but there is a very strong connection, I am afraid - one that you should know about.

Mr Moore: I take a point of order. Mr Speaker, I ask you to reconsider your position. Perhaps you did not consider the importance of a management plan for O'Connor Ridge. Had it been in place we would know where bulldozers should or should not go. I think that is the point. That is the connection that Ms Horodny is appropriately making for her supplementary question.

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