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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 5129 ..
MRS DUNNE (continuing):
services to people on the margins of our society who have problems reacting to and interacting with the wider community. That presents us with logistical problems.
These problems can be overcome in a process of real and open consultation. The governments that have been involved in this process have not facilitated open consultation. The minister, Mr Corbell, referred earlier to the problems that would be experienced in the transition from the old Griffin Centre to the new Griffin Centre. I think we are remiss for not making that process easier.
I seek leave to move the amendments circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I move:
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Paragraph (1)Omit "the failure of the previous and current governments to take"
Substitute "the lack of".
2
Paragraph (2)Omit "the inevitable"
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Insert "to"immediately after paragraph (2) "calls on the Government"Omit "to"immediately after paragraph 3.
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Paragraph (4)Omit "any final designs for the building"
Substitute "the internal design and fit out of the building".
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Paragraph (4)Insert "in and around Civic"immediately after "until these accommodation issues"Omit "satisfactorily"immediately after "in and around Civic have been".
Mr Wood: We will send QIC to you.
MRS DUNNE: These amendments improve the wording of the motion but I still have difficulty with some of the issues in the motion. In a spirit of openness and cooperation, these amendments will ensure that the consultation Ms Tucker is calling for takes place. However, that consultation will not hold up the construction of the Griffin Centre. Liberal opposition members will not support any motion that holds up the construction of that building.
The negotiations that Ms Tucker has called for will occur after the internal fit-out of the building. That gives the government a year within which to negotiate. If the government cannot solve the problems that are being experienced by these organisations next year it should not be in government. It is a simple task. Mr Wood, who is sniping and interjecting, said earlier, "We will send QIC to you."Let him send QIC to me. At least I can talk to QIC. I do not adopt a belligerent attitude every time somebody crosses me, does something that I do not particularly like or creates work for me.
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