Page 864 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 25 July 1989
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MR SPEAKER: I will take advice on that issue. I take Mr Jensen's point. I was not aware that this had been presented as evidence to the committee.
Mr Humphries: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. That is not the case. There was no document tabled or presented in evidence before the committee. On receiving the paper that I have tabled today I brought a copy of one page of that paper to the Assembly committee, to show it to members of that committee. It was not tabled; it was not presented as evidence; no formal note was taken of that paper. It was simply a piece of information that was presented to people in an informal fashion. I submit that it does not in any way breach any standing order or any practice of this place or any other place.
Mr Jensen: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented. I do not believe I said it was tabled as evidence in the committee. I said it was tabled during committee discussions. I have never said it was tabled during evidence. There is a subtle difference, I would suggest.
MR SPEAKER: No; I agree entirely.
A member: It has not been tabled.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Members, I will draw this debate to a close, and I will look at the matter and report back.
MORTGAGE INTEREST
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR SPEAKER: I have received a letter from Mr Stefaniak proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly for discussion, namely:
The effect of the mortgage interest crisis on the Canberra community.
MR STEFANIAK (4.01): It is interesting, Mr Speaker, that the Chief Minister, in her initial statement on the budget which she has just directed to the Assembly, indicated in point 3:
Population growth in the ACT is higher than almost all other States, but it has slowed considerably in the last couple of years. This slower rate of growth, in conjunction with high interest rates, has been a contributing factor to the decline in dwelling approvals experienced in the first three months of 1989. In the same period, retail sales also declined, earlier than the general Australian downturn.
Mr Speaker, the Federal Labor Government and, to a lesser extent because it has been here for less time, the local
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