Page 158 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 May 1989
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MR STEFANIAK (11.27): I wish to mention a number of points that the Government has raised. Firstly, in relation to the second Jebb report, I do not know how the Deputy Chief Minister could expect members of the public to get that report when we could not get a copy during the days of the ministerial advisory committee. Secondly, I would remind the Deputy Chief Minister that there are five members proposed for this committee, one from each party. Thus, I imagine there will be full representation from this Assembly. There is the machinery for that.
The Deputy Chief Minister mentioned jobs. What about the Museum of Australia? Perhaps when he was working for the Minister for Territories he could have mentioned that, and that could have gone ahead as a project to provide jobs. We are talking about a 60-day period; we are talking about consultation on this most important issue, and I think a lot of the points raised by the Deputy Chief Minister are quite fallacious in that regard.
MR JENSEN (11.28): Mr Speaker, I would like to start with the brief comment that the Chief Minister was absent during the early debate on this matter.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Jensen, I might draw attention to the fact that you have already spoken on this motion.
MR JENSEN: I do not believe so, Mr Speaker. I believe I took a point of order.
MR SPEAKER: My apologies. Go ahead, Mr Jensen.
MR JENSEN: We trust, Mr Speaker, that she was not at the shredder while she was away. There was no reason to panic. We hope that the ALP will see the light and adopt our motion in a form of bipartisan support in this chamber. Above all, Mr Speaker, we recognise that the Labor Party across the other side recognises numbers, whatever the faceless ACT Administration committee were telling Ms Follett at the time she was out of the chamber.
Before I go on, Mr Speaker, I would like to read the Rally policy on a casino to make sure that it is clearly on the record. I am prepared, Mr Berry, to table this particular document, if the Government so wishes.
Mr Whalan: No one would be interested, Norm.
MR JENSEN: I will let them know, Deputy Chief Minister, just so that they are aware. The ACT Casino Control Act 1988, should not be implemented against the wishes of the ACT community. Secondly, there should not be a casino adjacent to City Hill or the Parliamentary Triangle. Thirdly, the question of a casino for the ACT should be decided by representative government having regard to all proper criteria - social, economic, law and order, environmental and planning. Mr Speaker, I think it is important that I emphasise that third point. Finally, in
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