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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4640 ..

Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like clarification, Mr Speaker. I was intending to speak on Ms McRae's amendment. I presumed that the Chief Minister was speaking to Ms McRae's amendment, but from the way she is speaking perhaps she is closing the debate.

MR SPEAKER: It is up to you. You can speak on the amendment if you wish, Chief Minister.

MRS CARNELL: I will speak on Ms McRae's amendment, if you like, Mr Speaker, and then I will close the debate separately. I know that we have a quite long night tonight, so I do not want to speak for too long. Ms McRae's amendment seeks a clear commitment to the agreed outcomes of the 1993 Assembly 2020 report. Mr Speaker, to start with, I think we will find that the 2020 report was noted in the Assembly rather than agreed to in the Assembly. Most importantly, the 2020 report did not actually have an action plan. It did not actually do anything.

Mr Moore: That is right. That is what your job was. That is what the strategic plan is supposed to do.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Moore might forget just for a minute that the 2020 plan was the 50 per cent infill plan. It was the fifty-fifty plan.

Mr Moore: No. It included that on page 53.

MRS CARNELL: I am sorry. I do have it. It is all right.

Mr Moore: No, that is not it. The version that was printed is this version.

MRS CARNELL: That is true; but the documents that were tabled in this Assembly, Mr Speaker, did suggest, amongst lots and lots of other things, active urban renewal planning and that at least 50 per cent of total urban development should be infill. It was something that we debated in this place. It also had a number of goals, with absolutely no capacity or no activity whatsoever related to those goals. Many of the goals are totally appropriate.

Mr Speaker, maybe others can let us know, but I believe that the paper was noted in the Assembly. It was not agreed to as a course of action in the Assembly in 1993. It is also a different Assembly now. You assume that a document from 1993 is somehow binding upon this Government. Mind you, I do not know what you would be bound to. It does not actually say anything much at all. Mr Speaker, it is also a wonderful document, of course, in terms at least of the vision for prosperity. To quote the document, it says:

Canberra is now the City of Parrots. The natural symbol of Canberra is now the King Parrot.

So Mr Moore's committee got it wrong.

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