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other side to list those so-called broken promises and we will have a good, hard look at them. What I want to say in relation to the provision of legislation for this Assembly and for the people of the ACT is that that is a very good question, Ms Follett. There is possibly not the sort of legislation that one may have expected but let us just think about why that may be the case.
We have had eight years of a Federal Labor Government's complete and utter mismanagement. There has been mismanagement on the part of that particular Government in its concerns about the affairs of the people of the ACT. It was all too difficult for those sorts of issues that affected the people of the ACT very strongly to be put through the Federal Parliament. The problem was that it was all too difficult. Most of the time we have had one Minister who has had other things to do. The people of the ACT have been bottom of the list, except in the case of someone like Mr Punch who, against all the best advice of the community said, "Let's kick out the NCDC and let's have two planning authorities". We are still having some problems with that.
This is the sort of legislation that was pushed onto the people of the ACT, and that gave us self-government. The voting system was agreed to at 11 in the evening. These sorts of things were put on the people of the ACT. What is now necessary is for this Government to examine the legislation which we have in the ACT very carefully, to make sure that we do not have some of the sorts of cock-ups that we used to have in the past in relation to the legislation that was being presented by the Federal Parliament about the ACT. This is important. As Mr Stevenson said, if we are going to have legislation, let us have good legislation, not just legislation for the hell of it.
Forum on Canberra
DR KINLOCH (5.44): Mr Speaker, it is my very great pleasure to draw the attention of members of the Assembly to an event that will take place all day Saturday, from nine to five, in the National Convention Centre. It is a free public forum but you will need to bring your own lunch. The purpose of the forum is to provide community input to Canberra's planning process. The forum will be especially concerned to present views which receive little public notice from people with a vital interest in Canberra's future; that is not us, of course, but other people. It is hoped that ideas generated by the forum will prove useful to Canberra's decision makers.
The forum chairman will be Dr Robert Jackson of the ANU. The panel includes Malcolm Smith of the National Capital Planning Authority and Geoff Campbell of the Interim Territory Planning Authority. There are four sessions, two in the morning, two in the afternoon.
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