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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 10 Hansard (Thursday, 26 August 2004) . . Page.. 4390 ..

Clause 30, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Supplementary answers to questions without notice

Gungahlin Drive extension
Kangaroos

MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I table two answers to questions taken on notice, which I had intended to table after question time but neglected to.

Gungahlin Drive Extension—Impact on Kaleen horse paddocks—Answer to question without notice asked of Mr Stanhope by Ms Dundas and taken on notice on 19 August 2004.

Kangaroo cull—Googong—Answer to question without notice asked of Mr Stanhope by Ms Tucker and taken on notice on 24 August 2004.

Bushfires

Statement by Chief Minister

MR STANHOPE (Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Environment and Minister for Community Affairs): I also wish, Mr Speaker, to table a statutory declaration from Mr Mike Castle, but before doing so, I wish to seek leave to make a short statement in relation to that.

Leave granted.

MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, as members are aware, in question time today I was asked a question by Mrs Cross in relation to my alleged presence on Red Hill on 17 January. As the members would be aware, Mrs Cross tabled a statutory declaration that claimed that I was seen on Red Hill at about 8.30 on 17 January alighting from an Emergency Services vehicle with Mr Mike Castle and other members of the Emergency Services Bureau.

I undertook, during question time, to obtain from Mr Mike Castle a statutory declaration about those events. Mr Mike Castle kindly agreed to provide such a statutory declaration, and I now wish to table that, as I undertook to. I did undertake to table the statutory declaration, along with the photograph, which we expect Mrs Cross to table in relation to her allegations about my alleged presence on Red Hill. I await, as we all do, the tabling of that photograph.

I would like to take the opportunity of reading the statutory declaration from Mike Castle, head of the Emergency Services Bureau on 17 January and esteemed Canberran, somebody whom I believe everybody in this place knows and I am sure somebody whose integrity would not be gainsaid. This is Mr Mike Castle’s statutory declaration.

I, Michael John Castle of Canberra, do solemnly and sincerely declare:

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