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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 2115 ..

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Schedule 1 - Appropriations

Part 10 - Urban Services

Proposed expenditure - Urban Services, $136,604,000 (comprising net cost of outputs, $130,095,000; and payments on behalf of Territory, $6,509,000)

Debate resumed.

MS HORODNY: Mr Humphries has said in the past that he does not believe that the FAI rally has contributed to the degradation at Grevillea Park, but the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong. The scale and location of this particular project distinguish it quite clearly from other projects undertaken under the Decade of Landcare, which tend to be smaller projects on weed and erosion control in non-urban parts of the ACT. The Government tells us that no damage was caused by the car rally, but who assessed this? During the Estimates Committee hearing we were told that the car rally executives had assessed the impacts and decided that there was no damage.

Mr Humphries: Who told you that?

MS HORODNY: Why would they not say that, Mr Humphries? That is what we were told in the Estimates Committee hearings.

Mr Humphries: By whom?

MS HORODNY: You might have to go back to Hansard to check that.

Mr Humphries: I did not say that; nor did my officers.

MS HORODNY: That was clearly stated in the Estimates Committee hearing.

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