Page 374 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 December 2008
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It goes on to say:
I see a big problem with this.
This is at the nub of the problem that we all saw—all of us bar the Labor Party and the Chief Minister—in this. The email is there, Chief Minister. If you are interested, I can arrange for you to have a copy of this because it is important. To portray this as a problem for the people of Macarthur is wrong.
This is a problem, because of your mismanagement, that stretches right across the ACT, to the far end of Gungahlin, to the west of Belconnen, because people are concerned, because people do care. People move and live here because we are the bush capital and we have a planning system, a system which your process, I believe, has sought to subvert. If you could please give a guarantee at the end —
Mr Stanhope: I would be pleased to see the letter too, Mr Smyth, if it is convenient.
MR SMYTH: I will get you a copy. I seek leave to table the letter, for the interest of members. A copy can be provided to the Chief Minister.
Leave granted.
MR SMYTH: I present the following paper:
Proposed gas fired power station and data centre—Copy of email to ACT Liberal and ACT Greens MLAs from Mr Alan Kerlin, President, Gungahlin Community Council, dated 11 December 2008.
I seek leave for inclusion of the email in Hansard, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, as I am sure you are aware, there are guidelines for the inclusion of such documents in Hansard. I will seek advice on those guidelines.
MR SMYTH: I withdraw that request. I have tabled it. Those members that have not received it and that are interested can get a copy from the Clerk, just for the sake of process.
Then we get to the report that came out yesterday, that looked at this whole process and that has basically led to this bill. For those that were not in the last Assembly, the public accounts committee, which I am sure will take just as strong an interest in the role of the shareholders in various government-owned corporations, tabled a report on the Rhodium fiasco that this government presided over. Fundamental to the failure of Rhodium was the failure of the shareholders.
I am not very surprised but there it is on page 20, paragraph 2.53 of yesterday’s report.
Mr Seselja: This is Jon and Katy?
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