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This Bill is part of the Government's ongoing commitment to improve road safety and reduce the road toll in the ACT. It complements such measures as increased penalties for traffic infringements, increased enforcement of seat belt and child restraints, graduated licences for novice drivers and continuing road safety education programs in schools.
We in the ACT are fortunate that we do not have long stretches of highways and our heavy vehicle toll is small. However, I am confident that, with the introduction of this measure throughout Australia, the horrific consequences of heavy vehicle crashes will be reduced. I now present the explanatory memorandum for this Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Grassby) adjourned.
APPROPRIATION BILL 1990-91
[COGNATE PAPER:
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE - REPORT ON NEW CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM 1990-91]
Detail Stage
Debate resumed from 21 November 1990.
MR SPEAKER: I remind members that this is a cognate debate, and in debating executive business order of the day No. 1 they may also address their remarks to Assembly business order of the day No. 1.
Schedule - Part II
Department of Justice and Community Services
Proposed expenditure - Division 140 - Housing, $28,079,500
MRS GRASSBY (10.49): Mr Speaker, when this was being discussed by the Estimates Committee one of the points that were made was that quite a lot of the money of the Housing Trust was going towards the Melba Flats demolition. This was part of the Labor Party policy when we were in government. It was a very large decision to make and is being carried on by this Government.
At the time I thought it was, and I still think it is, a very good decision. There were many problems with the Melba Flats and, although I, as Minister, looked at many, many ways of trying to resolve those problems without going to the most dramatic of all and demolishing the whole complex, there seemed to be no other way.
But, Mr Speaker, this demolition seems to be taking a tremendously long time. We did not seem to get from the Minister the exact time when there would be some housing or some people would be moving back into that area. We now
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