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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (20 February) . . Page.. 274 ..

Mr Berry: She said these things to the Stein inquiry before she was appointed and you still appointed her.

MR HUMPHRIES: No, she did not say anything at all about the AMP, Mr Berry. This is the point.

Mr Berry: No, no; the Stein inquiry. It was all said before - - -

MR HUMPHRIES: I am not talking about that. I am talking about the AMP.

Mr Berry: You do not want to talk about that. You got caught.

MR HUMPHRIES: No, I have moved on to something else, Mr Berry. If you were distracted, that is your problem. Mr Speaker, the AMP has major interests in a number of national companies which almost certainly might have a direct interest in this enterprise: In the Lend Lease Corporation there is a $140m holding by the AMP; in Coles-Myer, a $140m holding by the AMP; in Woolworths Ltd, $100m. Those connections are significant. I think, with the greatest respect, it is relevant and it is significant for members of a body like the Interim Kingston Foreshore Development Authority to declare such interests if they have them.

Mr Berry: But she did declare her interest when Kate forced them to put the $40,000 over to the Science Festival.

MR HUMPHRIES: No, that is not true; they were never declared, Mr Berry.

MR SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.

MR MOORE (5.33): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move the amendment circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: Thank you, members. I move:

Paragraph (2), omit "calls on", substitute "requires".

Paragraph (2) of the motion would now read:

requires the Government to urgently restore community confidence in the Government's willingness to listen and respond to concerns raised by community groups by reinstating Jacqui Rees as community representative on the Board of the Interim Kingston Foreshore Development Authority, as a symbol of the Government's commitment to improved community/government relations.

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