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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 4 Hansard (18 April) . . Page.. 1091 ..

Members interjected.

Mr Hird: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I draw your attention to standing order 61, which says that a member may not interrupt another member. These people over here are doing nothing else. I am trying to hear. We do have an interest, Mr Speaker, in the question that was asked, because we have a concern about small business.

MR SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order. Continue, Chief Minister.

MRS CARNELL: To finish very quickly, Mr Speaker, Mr Humphries and I have made it very clear that Lend Lease or Woden Plaza have been given absolutely no approval to go ahead with anything. We have given them approval to conduct a full-scale community consultation approach, something that we would encourage in all sorts of areas.

MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I would like to ask a supplementary question, if you will let me.

Ms Follett: Be careful.

MR SPEAKER: Yes. Thank you for the caution, Ms Follett.

MR WOOD: It is about proposals for retail expansion, Mr Speaker. I note that the Chief Minister said, "We launched". She used the word "we". She is endeavouring to rewrite history because she and her colleagues did everything they could to frustrate and to stop anything happening in Tuggeranong.

MR SPEAKER: Would you mind asking your supplementary question?

MR WOOD: It needs a preamble, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: There is no preamble to a supplementary question. Have a look at standing order 119.

MR WOOD: She did everything she could to frustrate that development. She says that she does not sit on her hands, yet she is using the Ibecon report that we commissioned.

Mr De Domenico: I take a point of order, under standing order 119. Would you ask Mr Wood to ask the supplementary question?

MR SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order. Ask the supplementary question, Mr Wood.

MR WOOD: In relation to that Ibecon report and retail trading, how does she propose to deal with the proposition spelt out by Ibecon that there is a shortfall of retail space in Tuggeranong and an oversupply in Woden? How does she propose to rationalise this with a balanced approach?

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