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course, tend to follow. The point is that what happens here is that this is now a Bill of trust, and perhaps its title ought to have been changed; but we did not do that. It is the situation that we could hardly trust people who have not continued to stick to the promises that they went to the people with when they were elected.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Canberra Times Site
MR MOORE (12.02 am): Mr Speaker, I must say that this evening's display from the Alliance Government is something that is a matter of concern and ought to be a matter of concern to members of the ACT community. What we have seen here is a government that has vandalised our schools; that has vandalised our hospitals; that has vandalised much of our planning system and probably will continue to do so. To be quite a bit more specific, I would like to speak tonight on the Canberra Times site.
We heard this evening the Chief Minister saying that he has no control over how the Federal Government reacts in terms of its planning as far as the Canberra Times site goes. However, when the original report of our select committee on the Canberra Times site came down, one of the concerns as I recall - and I may stand corrected by Mr Collaery - was that the protection was that no Federal public servants and, of course, no ACT public servants would go into that particular site. The Chief Minister gave that assurance. Of course, you can never hold to that particular commitment. There is no way that we, as a legislative body, can make that commitment in terms of the Federal Government. We can make that commitment in terms of our own public servants. I accept the good spirit in which the Chief Minister presented that.
The reality is that, if we are going to stop office development in Civic and if we are going to make the decentralised town plan system work, then what is most critical for us is to take a stance on that development, recognising that an office block development is a
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