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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (19 February) . . Page.. 130 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

National Crime Authority - Report 1995-96, including financial statements and report of the Executive Director from the Australian National Audit Office, dated 14 September 1996.

Ministerial travel report - 1 October 1996 to 31 December 1996.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1995, I present determinations, together with statements, for:

Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly - Determination No. 8, dated 16 December 1996.

Full-time holders of public offices -

Determination No. 9, dated 16 December 1996.

Determination No. 11, dated 28 January 1997.

Part-time holders of public offices - Determination No. 10, dated 16 December 1996.

JOHN DEDMAN PARKWAY - PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

Debate resumed.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (3.41): Mr Speaker, we return to the debate about the John Dedman Parkway. First of all, I want to indicate that the Government will be moving an amendment to the motion before the Assembly. I have seen the amendments circulated by Ms McRae. Essentially, as I understand the intention, it is that the Planning and Environment Committee of the Assembly should have the opportunity to overview the processes which the Government is presently using to come to a view about the appropriate means of determining what is necessary to further this issue; to examine the need for and, if so, the route for a parkway from Gungahlin to the rest of Canberra.

My reservation about the position as outlined in the amendments is that I do not wish the impression to be created that the Government supports necessarily all the work referred to in Ms Horodny's motion taking place before the time when the Assembly would reconsider this issue following the Planning and Environment Committee's report. Nonetheless, let me say that I welcome the overview by the Planning and Environment Committee. I understand that it is conducting a similar kind of exercise at the moment in respect of the Ainslie redevelopment proposals, and I strongly welcome the involvement by the committee in that exercise so that a view can be given to the Government about this exercise.

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