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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (12 November) . . Page.. 4019 ..

MS TUCKER: My question is to Mr Humphries as Attorney-General. Mr Humphries, whom have you appointed as the Domestic Violence Coordinator?

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I attended the first meeting of the Domestic Violence Prevention Council about three weeks ago, at which I raised the question of Domestic Violence Coordinator and sought the advice of the committee on the process for considering the appointment of that person. That is where the matter stands at the moment. When I get that advice, I will move to make a decision on the subject.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, my question without notice is to Mrs Carnell in her capacity as Chief Minister. Chief Minister, can you confirm that, at the time that Australian Water Services, which is 50 per cent owned by Lend Lease, was offering the former Deputy Chief Minister, Mr De Domenico, a job, Lend Lease were also, as far as I can ascertain, seeking approval for the expansion of Woden Plaza?

MRS CARNELL: In terms of longbows, this is a really good one. Mr Humphries might be able to help me here. When did Lend Lease first start talking about the expansion of Woden Plaza?

Mr Humphries: In about 1995.

MRS CARNELL: In about 1995. It has been an extraordinarily long process.

Mr Humphries: We knocked half of it back.

MRS CARNELL: The proposal that Lend Lease put forward has been on the drawing board for a very long time - in fact, I would suspect, since before 1995. The process that was put in place has been subject to all of the normal requirements of the Land (Planning and Environment) Act. In fact, as Mr Humphries just said, Lend Lease wanted to go ahead with a proposal that was something like 50 per cent bigger.

I can also guarantee that, apart from no deals being done with AWS, no deals have been done with Lend Lease either. There were no deals with Lend Lease and no deals with AWS with regard to Mr De Domenico or a job for any of my Ministers or anybody else in this house, Mr Speaker - absolute, categorical, no deals, no enticements, no negotiations, no taxpayers' money. Mr De Domenico left this Assembly, as he said, because he was offered a job in the private sector for, as I think he said, a six-figure amount.

MR CORBELL: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, when was the Lend Lease application approved? Is it not the case that Lend Lease were willing to help you out because they thought it would help build favour to progress their development application?

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