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and Pacific Regional Parliamentary Seminar, dated 13 July 1990.
Mr Stevenson: On a point of order, Mr Acting Speaker, is leave required for a tabling of documents?
MR ACTING SPEAKER: No, he referred to the document in his speech and leave is not required for a Minister, Mr Stevenson.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Stage '88 Fencing
MR JENSEN (4.50): I present report No. 3 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure, "Stage '88 Fencing", together with extracts from the minutes of proceedings. Pursuant to the resolution of the Assembly, the Deputy Speaker authorised the printing and distribution of the report on 12 June 1990. I move:
That the report be noted.
Mr Acting Speaker, on 12 April this year the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure resolved at its meeting that it would inquire into and report on the proposal to construct a fence at Stage '88, Commonwealth Park. Members may recall that the Assembly's Estimates Committee tabled a report on the 1989-90 estimates on 2 November 1989. There the Estimates Committee requested that the Government review its decision relating to fencing Stage '88 and develop alternative proposals for the funds consistent with the grant. Subsequent to that, Mr Acting Speaker, the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts wrote to the committee requesting that the committee provide informal advice. The committee decided that it was inappropriate to do so and decided to adopt formal terms of reference to consider the matter raised with it by the Minister.
The committee then placed advertisements in the Canberra Times and invited organisations and individuals to comment on the proposal to construct a fence. The committee received three submissions supporting the proposal to fence Stage '88. Two of those submissions were seen by the committee as offering only qualified support. The committee heard two basic arguments in support of the proposal: one, that the fence was an original unit of the original proposal for a music bowl in Commonwealth Park as the Commonwealth's bicentenary gift to the people of the ACT; and two, that the fence was seen as a way of ensuring that at least some of the running costs associated with the stage could be recovered.
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