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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 6 Hansard (18 June) . . Page.. 1771 ..

PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR HUMPHRIES: In the course of the debate Ms McRae said that I wanted to get rid of the Opposition. Let me say that nothing could be further from the truth. I am very fond of this Opposition. I would like to see this Opposition around for a long time. In fact, I will work very hard and very long to keep the Opposition in their comfortable positions on that side of the chamber for as long as I possibly can.

MS TUCKER: I also would like to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MS TUCKER: I want to clarify a point. Going on Mr Corbell's response to what I was saying, I may not have been clear. I am interested in the right to ask a question being guaranteed. I was not suggesting that people would necessarily be denied that right. I am interested in a guarantee that each person may ask a question. That is what the point was.

DESIGNATED LAND - DEVELOPMENT PROTOCOLS

MS McRAE (4.11): I move:

That:

(1) this Assembly calls on the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning to prepare a set of consultation protocols to be followed when proposals for developments or projects on designated land are being considered. The protocols must establish a process by which the general public can be consulted before a decision is made; and

(2) these protocols be brought to the Assembly for debate in the September sittings.

This issue is not new. We have mentioned it in the chamber before in the adjournment debate. Mr Humphries provided you with a set of draft consultations a while back and pointed out that they were draft consultations. It is with pleasure that I pick up the debate again. I think it is a straightforward issue that the Government should be able to oblige on.

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