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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 1 Hansard (8 December) . . Page.. 3964 ..
MR STANHOPE (continuing):
We would prefer to see the matter adjourned, but to suggest that under no circumstances should we approach the New South Wales Government, the Government that has the potential to impact so severely on the quality of life of the residents of the ACT, is quite amazing to me. The Government and others in this Assembly suggest that we should never approach the New South Wales Government in relation to a matter of the most significant importance to so many people in the ACT, namely the state of the south-east forests, the area which most people in the ACT use for their recreational and holiday purposes.
It is an area that we all visit constantly. We visit it, in most part, because of what it has to offer - its natural environment. We have a government here that does not think that our community of interests is of significant order to allow us, as another government, to approach the Government of New South Wales. It is the most parochial, narrow-minded, inward-looking, absurd approach to government that anyone could possibly imagine.
Debate (on motion by Mr Wood ) adjourned.
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Debate (on motion by Ms Carnell ) adjourned.
Debate resumed from 13 October 1999, on motion by Mr Corbell:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Land (Planning and Environment) Legislation Amendment Bill 1999? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that in debating order of the day No. 3 they may also address their remarks to order of the day No. 4.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (11.30): Mr Speaker, the call-in powers of the Minister for planning are an important part of the Act. I think the Assembly recognised when they put them there that there were circumstances when it was
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