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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (11 May) . . Page.. 1473 ..
I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MR QUINLAN: Mr Speaker, just a point of clarification: the Treasurer said that in 10 days' time he would be bringing a budget into this place. Ten days' time would be a Sunday. I want to let him know that I will be happy to be here and go through it with him. I do not want him to feel alone.
MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, also on a point of clarification: Mr Wood asked me to check the definition of "gazump". According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary "gazump" is to raise the price of a property after having accepted an offer. So I do not think that is quite true, and the vendor had not accepted the offer.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services): Mr Speaker, for the information and the interest of all members, I present the following paper in respect of the draft local area planning advisory committee protocol in which Mr Corbell has such an interest:
Planning Advisory Committee Protocol-Draft Local Area Planning Advisory Committee Protocol-A framework for the Community, Industry and Government-working together on planning and development issues, dated May 2000.
In censoring this document, Mr Corbell forgot to read the following line which appears immediately after the portion he quoted:
Any proposed media comment to the role of LAPAC corporately or individually shall be limited to the scope of the LAPAC. Preliminary advice of the proposed comments shall be provided to the Minister's representative (normally the media Adviser or PALM's Media Adviser).
It then goes on to say:
Note: That this recognises that the LAPAC's principal role is to advise the Minister for Urban Services.
Mr Speaker, the role of LAPAC is to advise the minister. This document does not say that they need approval, so I need to clarify that. Neither have I ever said that they need to ask for approval. As a ministerial adviser, they simply need to inform the office of their intention.
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