Page 2182 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 6 June 1990
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I have two personal explanations to make. Firstly, Mr Collaery suggested that at a meeting with Concrete Constructions I said that I accepted totally that an office block development would be fine, provided that it did not have any government occupants. In fact, what I said was that I would consider that matter. I did consider it. I spoke to my advisers and decided that the chances of actually being able to achieve that were not realistic at all. Therefore I have not considered that as an acceptable approach.
Secondly, Mr Jensen suggested that I misled the Assembly in terms of referring to the Civic Centre Policy Plan, page 70. In fact, part of the difficulty there was that I have a very early version of the document - what is described as "an interim photocopied publication of the final policy plan for the Civic Centre, Canberra". The wording in the interim document is the same as in the final published document but the page numbers are different. When I was referring to page 70, I was actually referring to a coloured map, setting out the uses. As we worked out later, page 70 of the version that Mr Jensen has is equivalent to my page 104. He said that, if I had read further, I would have seen that things were different and hence I had, in effect, attempted to mislead the Assembly. That is not so at all.
I draw Mr Jensen's attention to the fact that those other land uses are ancillary land uses. The Macquarie dictionary defines the word "ancillary" as "an accessory or auxiliary use". For me to argue that the area was set aside specifically for a social, community or cultural facility or a health centre use - I did not mention health centre although it is here - is perfectly reasonable. An ancillary use means that it is dependent upon that. Therefore, my presentation about the Griffin Centre site was perfectly reasonable. The little drawing that the Chief Minister presented yesterday is inconsistent with the Civic Centre Policy Plan, as indeed it is with the Metropolitan Policy Plan.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
Motion (by Mr Collaery) agreed to:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Executive business, order of the day No. 1, being called on forthwith.
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