Page 4960 - Week 13 - Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Ms Hunter: It was about the Crace development, concern for the LDA’s joint venture in Crace.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR STANHOPE: We will look forward to your intervention next time we take a point of order on this subject, Ms Hunter, following that interjection. We are sure we will receive it. Next time we ask a question about financing the Cotter dam, it will be taken as a question relevant to the Deloitte report, perhaps.
Mr Hanson: Was that the sort of threatening language you used to the archbishop, Jon? Was that the tone?
MR STANHOPE: It is all about my tone, is it?
Mr Hanson: We saw what you just did then?
MR STANHOPE: I asked a question, a very relevant point. In the context of decisions taken about public housing, once again, Ms Bresnan, I must say that I cannot recall that particular subject ever having been raised with me or coming across my desk. But I am more than happy to seek a response to the decision taken in relation to Crace and the housing mix that would be part and parcel of that development. I simply do not know the answer.
I am not aware that it has ever been something that has come into my mind. But, in the context of our public housing program and the growth of public housing and our policies in relation to the spread of public housing throughout the ACT, I will have to take some advice. I will take a briefing. I am more than happy to fully brief you on that and perhaps on overarching strategies in relation to decisions around the location of public housing in the territory.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Hunter, a supplementary question?
MS HUNTER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, could you please elaborate on how the Crace joint development will be carbon neutral and will it be a requirement of future LDA joint ventures to be carbon neutral?
Mr Stanhope: Thank you, Ms Hunter. This is interesting. If the subject is Crace, you can ask anything. Can we ask about trees in Crace?
MR SPEAKER: Do you want to take a point of order, Mr Stanhope, or are you answering the question?
Mr Stanhope: Actually this is a point of order. So that we better understand and we will not come into conflict in relation to these supplementary questions, there were four questions—one on public housing, one on carbon neutrality, one on community title and one on solar orientation. But because all the questions are on solar orientation, public housing, community title in Crace—
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