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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (12 November) . . Page.. 4017 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

mean inconvenience to some people; but it certainly will not mean the destruction of the sport, as Mr Stefaniak and Mr Humphries suggested earlier. That is simply nonsense. Of course the sport will call out if that is what is going to happen, so that they are not inconvenienced in any way. In protecting our environment we should take a regional approach to this matter and ensure that we do not put in place a special regulation which results in somebody who lives across the border getting a lower standard than the residents of the ACT.

Australian Water Services Pty Ltd

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, my question without notice is to Mrs Carnell in her capacity as head of the Government. Chief Minister, are you aware that Australian Water Services - the company that employed your former deputy, Tony De Domenico - are currently providing support in the form of advertising to the Canberra Cosmos, whose president, coincidentally, is Mr Ian Knop? Can you explain what interest Australian Water Services might have in raising their profile in the ACT? Chief Minister, does it have anything to do with the Water Resources Bill, which provided, among other things, for the sale of allocations of Canberra water on a commercial basis? Can you rule out now, or in the life of the next government, using those provisions to introduce private competition to the Canberra water market? Will you rule out selling ACTEW's water business to Australian Water Services or any other company?

MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, I do not know whether there is Executive policy involved in that or whatever.

MRS CARNELL: That is just hypothetical. The whole thing is hypothetical. I think I can answer the first bit before it got hypothetical on what may happen in the future. Am I aware that Australian Water Services are sponsors, did you say, of the Cosmos?

Mr Whitecross: Something like that; support by way of advertising.

MRS CARNELL: What did you say? What do you mean?

MR SPEAKER: Mr Whitecross, either you know or you do not.

Mr Whitecross: I know.

MRS CARNELL: I am just wondering what the question was.

Mr Whitecross: I can ask the whole question again if you like, Mr Speaker.

MRS CARNELL: No, just the first bit, because the rest was hypothetical.

Mr Whitecross: No, it was not hypothetical. Chief Minister, are you aware that Australian Water Services - the company that employed your former deputy, Tony De Domenico - are currently providing support in the form of advertising to the

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