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Mr Duby: She is not here again.
MR KAINE: Exactly. But the fact is - - -
Mr Wood: It is properly done before question time; you know that.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Wood: If it had been done properly, you would not be doing it now; you would have done it at 2.30 pm.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Wood!
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, as far as I am aware, at 2.30 pm question time takes precedence over all other business. Mr Wood is quite wrong.
Mrs Grassby: The Speaker is supposed to tell us who the questions should be directed to if the Minister is not available.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby! Please address your comments through the Chair.
MR KAINE: Anyway, to get to the point, Mr Speaker, if Mr Wood and Mrs Grassby will allow me to get to it, the fact is that the Minister is attending a meeting of the Australian Institute of Criminology at a conference in Brisbane. He has been invited to deliver a paper on the police and the community in the 1990s. I cannot think of anybody better qualified to deliver such a paper. Mr Speaker, he will be here in the house before this sitting day is out. So, in fact, we are not obliged to seek leave or anything else, but I am happy to satisfy the curiosity of the members opposite as to what he is doing. He is off on legitimate business as the Minister for justice.
SOUTH EAST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Ministerial Statement
MR KAINE (Chief Minister), by leave: Mr Speaker, I wish to speak on the establishment of the South East Economic Development Council. In February this year the New South Wales and ACT governments announced their intention of preparing a joint regional economic development strategy. Details of the strategy were discussed at the first meeting of the New South Wales-ACT consultative forum held in March, and a progress report on that matter is to be presented to the second meeting of the forum to be held early in December.
As the strategy has progressed, it has become clear that greater significance must be given to the economic links between the ACT and New South Wales, particularly those in the surrounding region. For this reason Mr Greiner and I
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