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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4323 ..

MR SPEAKER: Yes, although it is up to a member, I suppose, to move, not necessarily on the notice paper, publication of the documents. Standing order 156 - I will not read the entire standing order - talks about contracts. Any question concerning the application of that standing order should be decided by the Assembly itself. It is up to the Assembly to decide whether the publication proceeds. The Clerk reminds me that, of course, at any time a member can seek leave to move a motion.

MR MOORE (3.26): In fact, Mr Speaker, I might just do that very thing. I seek leave to move a motion that would authorise the publication of these papers.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: I move:

That the Assembly authorises the publication of the documents presented on 22 November 1996 relating to Woden Plaza Car Park and the subject of the Speaker's statement of 3 December 1996.

Mr Speaker, I have a series of reasons for seeking to have these papers published. I think they make particularly interesting reading for members who are interested in the leasehold system and protection of the leasehold system. We have a situation that I think is appropriately set out in one of the papers from 1991. Mr Speaker, the particular paper that I refer to is one of the papers that you have actually crossed something out of. Therefore, in deference to the decision you have made, I will not quote that piece of material, because this is not a backdoor method of trying to get the information into the Assembly.

The paper is a minute from Robin Anderson, the then manager of policy in the Transport Strategy and Programs Unit, in August 1991 to the director of the Land Division, with a copy to a couple of other people. It states:

I refer to your minute of 5 August 1991, concerning a bid by Lend Lease Retail Pty Ltd to secure long-term leases over Sections 13, 17 and 19, Phillip.

I have considerable reservations about the proposal, with concerns in three major areas:

1. The proposal does nothing to advance the Government's transport objectives and, in fact, leaves the way open for Lend Lease to possibly adopt parking strategies and pricing levels in the long term which could easily run counter to the Government's transport priorities. In particular, there seem to be insufficient measures to guarantee public availability to the car parks at required hours, sufficient primacy of short-stay parking, and an appropriately high level of charges for long-stay parking.

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