Page 216 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 30 May 1989
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MR JENSEN: I have a supplementary question then, Mr Speaker. Did the Minister give express directions that the Rally representatives were not to receive invitations?
MR WHALAN: No, Mr Speaker.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed again to the Deputy Chief Minister who will recall an ALP election commitment under the heading "Environmental Impact Assessments". One proposal that his party put forward was that there would be a publicly available register of all proposed development projects. Has that register been established? If not, when will it be established? It is on page 3 of the ALP policy document.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, with your agreement I might take that question from Mr Collaery. Yes, that was indeed an election commitment given by the Australian Labor Party. It is one that will be honoured. As Mr Collaery knows, the work of the appropriate committees in that area is in a very early stage indeed, and I think it is something that the committees may want to consider.
It is also a fact, of course, that on environmental impact legislation this Assembly is yet at too early a stage to have made any progress at all. The Assembly has my undertaking that that register will be established, that it will be publicly available, and that it will be done as quickly as possible.
PROVISIONAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Chief Minister. Has she heard of announcements today by the Commonwealth Government concerning the future of the old Parliament House? Is she also aware of a variety of proposals that have been made in this Assembly and elsewhere about its future? Does she care to comment on the future of the old Parliament House, since it is such an important part of our Territory?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Wood for the question. Yes, I am indeed aware of the issue of the old Parliament House, and I am of course aware of a statement made in the press by a member of the Liberal Party in the Assembly that it was considered that the old Parliament House might be an appropriate home for this Assembly.
I believe also that that statement had some support from the Residents Rally. I would like it placed on the record that I believe the old Parliament House is totally unsuited to that purpose. It is a national institution; it must be
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