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Planning—Molonglo Valley

MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (2.45): Madam Speaker, I hope this is the right place, but tell me if I am wrong. There was a motion passed in the Assembly on 23 October last year and it required a final report about Molonglo to be delivered to the Assembly by the end of May. I note that it is now June, and I do not note the report. I am not sure how else I can bring this matter to the Assembly’s attention.

MADAM SPEAKER: I think you raised it then. The relevant minister will come back at the next sitting, with either the report or an update on where that report may be, if necessary.

MRS JONES (Murrumbidgee) (2.46): Pertaining to Ms Le Couteur’s question, can I move that the Assembly suspend standing orders so that we can hear from the minister why we have not heard back about Molonglo?

MADAM SPEAKER: I am not sure if the relevant minister is even in the chamber at the moment.

MRS JONES: The minister is Minister Gentleman.

MADAM SPEAKER: Do you have any information to add?

MRS JONES: No. I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Gentleman (Minister for Planning and Land Management) from addressing the Assembly in relation to a resolution passed by the Assembly last year concerning planning and development for the Molonglo Valley.

Question put.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 7

Noes 6

Mr Coe

Mr Milligan

Mr Barr

Mr Gentleman

Mrs Dunne

Mr Parton

Ms Berry

Ms Stephen-Smith

Mrs Jones

Mr Wall

Ms J Burch

Ms Le Couteur

Ms Cheyne

Question resolved in the negative, in accordance with standing order 272, as the motion had not been carried by an absolute majority of members.

MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Urban Renewal) (2.50): If it would assist the

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