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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4863 ..

MR MOORE: I note the interjections of Ms McRae and Mr Whitecross. It seems to me that the best thing we can do with this legislation now is to refer it to the Planning and Environment Committee and put the work back in the hands of Ms McRae, Mr Kaine, Ms Horodny and me. We will do it over January and February. You can take a break, Mr Speaker. We can adjourn the debate and we can have fun expressing Christmas greetings to everybody, then we can go on home. That is the most sensible thing to do at this stage.

MS HORODNY (5.56): Mr Speaker, I rise to support Mr Moore's excellent suggestion. I believe it is a highly creative solution. It is often the case that when we have contentious Bills in this place - - -

MR SPEAKER: Highly what, did you say?

MS HORODNY: If you had called the house to order, you might have heard, Mr Speaker, with all due respect.

MR SPEAKER: I did not catch what you said.

MS HORODNY: What I said was that it was a highly creative solution.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you.

MS HORODNY: It is often the case in this Assembly that Bills that are very contentious are referred to a committee, and I believe it is very appropriate that we do so in this case. It certainly would save us a lot of time this evening. It is very hard to understand the Labor Party's position on this issue. On the one hand, they support this Bill and, on the other hand, they are appalled by the quality of the Liberal Party's strategic plan that was handed down the other day. The Labor Party needs to understand that the strategic plan is the shape of things to come. That is what you get when you have planning coming out of the Chief Minister's Department.

Ms McRae: When you have Liberal governments that is what you get. You know how to fix that.

MS HORODNY: Ms McRae, that is the result of having planning coming out of the Chief Minister's Department. That is something that you agreed to. I find it difficult to understand why you do not agree with the Liberals' strategic plan. That is exactly the sort of result you can expect. As I said, Mr Moore's suggestion is a very good one and I will be supporting it.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (5.58): Mr Speaker, I see this move for what it is - a further delaying tactic - and I oppose the motion.

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