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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1129 ..
MR SMYTH: I thank Mr Kaine for his question. Without having my Canberra by suburb block and section map with me, I assume it is the land to the north of Stirling Avenue.
Mr Kaine: Right behind the television studio.
MR SMYTH: The land is currently zoned residential and any infrastructure that was put in would be there to facilitate residential development of that area.
MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question. The point is that Mr Humphries assured the people there that in the foreseeable future there would be no residential development. That was only five years ago. Has the foreseeable future now expired or, alternatively, can the Minister assure the residents of North Watson that there is no intention now to build residential accommodation on that land? The Minister has been accused of being evasive and ambiguous about the Minister's intention. Will he give an assurance that this land is not now going to be developed for residential purposes?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I might take that question as Minister responsible for - - -
Mr Kaine: Can the Minister for Urban Services not answer it?
MR HUMPHRIES: Asset management is the responsibility of the Minister responsible for the Department of Treasury and Infrastructure. It is not a matter of the Minister; it is a matter of who is actually responsible for the area. Mr Speaker, I will check the block and section that Mr Kaine is referring to, to see whether there is any question of residential development, but my recollection is that land adjacent to the Prime television station at Watson has been released for extension to the Prime television station, not for residential development. But I will take the question on notice and get back to Mr Kaine.
MR BERRY: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, yesterday you announced the appointment of a new head of your department, Mr Robert Tonkin, and I note his five-year use-by date statement. Mr Tonkin is the fourth to hold that office in the last five years, following Mr Walker, Mr Thompson and Mr Gilmour. Those former CEOs join other senior executives who have left employment with the Chief Minister's Government or office in recent times - people like Ms Pegrum, Ms Ford, Ms Webb, Mr Dawson, who all share the odium of being associated with issues like the fatal hospital implosion, the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium - - -
Mr Moore
: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. There have been a number of resolutions of the Assembly. I refer particularly to the one on freedom of speech. This matter has been raised a number of times. In the back of the standing orders is a resolution on freedom of speech. Still those opposite, Mr Berry in particular, are very
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