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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (29 November) . . Page.. 3380 ..
Mr Berry: Fair comment, though.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. As Mr Corbell withdrew, Mr Berry said, "However, it was a fair comment." The implication is very clear-that it is a lie. He needs to withdraw that.
Mr Berry: I am so sorry; I withdraw.
Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, I have a supplementary question.
MR SPEAKER: Just a moment. I have to sort this out, and then Mr Corbell might have a supplementary question. Oh, are you withdrawing?
Mr Moore: He has withdrawn it, Mr Speaker.
MR CORBELL: I ask the minister a supplementary question. If there was no intention to examine urban open space areas for possible infill, I ask the minister whether he can explain why correspondence from his own department, dated 26 May this year, to the then Infrastructure and Asset Management area of the Department of Treasury and Infrastructure said:
Attached is the result of our field inspections of the blocks identified by IAM for possible sale for residential or other purposes.
If there was no intention to examine sites, why were you doing the assessment of urban open space for residential development?
MR SMYTH: I am not sure of the context in which Mr Corbell uses that document. I will check the document and get back to him. But, yet again, Mr Corbell goes out and says that the government has got a secret plan. There it is, Mr Speaker. There is the secret plan. We publish our secret plans.
Then we give it to the Labor Party so they can know about our secret plans. Then, what Mr Corbell does is release to the public half of the answer and he purports that is what the government is going to do. He got a second document that outlined that the process was not finished and yet again what we have from Mr Corbell is the twisting and the turning that we always get from the Labor Party.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: the minister has said that he has to take this on notice. You ought to just sit him down.
MR SPEAKER: I call Mr Hird.
MR HIRD: Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Smyth. I refer to media reports on 2 November that the government has ruled out developing a town in the Jerrabomberra Valley. Can the minister advise the parliament whether the government will proceed to plan the development of this valley.
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