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This Government also moved decisively to ban parking in Reid and adjoining suburbs such as Turner - something no other government, not the Follett Government, had done, despite numerous requests from the Reid action groups and others. This Government bit the bullet on the Canberra Times site. The Residents Rally particularly bit the bullet on that one. It can take hard decisions and sit with them. That is one of the ones that were difficult for the Rally and it did it, and it is staying four square with the Government on that matter. We had to bite the bullet on an historic legacy left to us from a Labor Federal administration. We have done it.
Mr Speaker, this Government has endorsed proposals put by an all party committee, the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee, that dealt with the Canberra Times site. We expect the Commonwealth to abide by the prohibition, if you like, imposed on Commonwealth public servants by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the ACT. The Chief Minister, as Minister for planning, is undertaking not to load the community with those people.
Mr Speaker, I ask the Leader of the Opposition to say whether the Downer Community Association should get a direct grant of a lease for the property at Downer or whether it should be open for public auction in the fairest, equitable manner as is proposed for Phillip pool by Mrs Grassby. I challenge her.
MR SPEAKER: The time for the discussion has now expired.
Sitting suspended from 4.54 to 8.00 pm
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DUTY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Debate resumed from 22 November 1990, on motion by Mr Duby:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (8.00): Mr Speaker, the provisions of the Financial Institutions Duty (Amendment) Bill 1990 are not controversial. They are supported by the Labor members of this Assembly. I would like to say, at the outset, that, at least on this occasion, the explanatory memorandum that is provided with the Bill is, in fact, a lucid document. It is a document that sets out, in language that the vast majority of people could understand, what the Bill is about. I congratulate the Government on that, and encourage them to make that the case with every Bill that they introduce. It is a matter that Professor Whalan has commented on any number of times. However, it is still a rare enough occurrence for it to be worthy of comment.
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